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When NPB's greatest foreign players are brought up, there is one man who always dominates the discussion, Randy William Bass.
This is his story
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@helloaddax 8 месяцев назад

I met a former Tigers and Buffaloes player who owns a chanko restaurant in Osaka (his last name is Nakatani). He was super excited to tell me and my friend about playing with Randy Bass. Glad to finally get some background on why he was such a big deal.

@GaijinBaseball 8 месяцев назад

That'd be Tadami Nakatani, who was Bass's teammate for a year, before getting traded to the Buffaloes mid-season in 1988. From what I could find, they only played 7 games together, which I guess is a testament to Bass' impact if Nakatani still speaks that highly of him.

@ThrashAD720 9 месяцев назад

Bass in 81 really played in 69 games and had 4 HR and 20 RBI.

@wendell_stamps 3 месяца назад

33:06 "Yappari boku wa gaijin datta." translated: "Of course it was because I am a foreigner." The fact that the press put "gaijin" (a semi-slur for foreigner) in katakana to emphasize the word really shows how much people were on his side. Good on them. Good for Bass for saying it as well.

@elbarto7808 29 дней назад

I like that you put the Yakuza Game soundtrack in the background!

@GreenHornet553 9 месяцев назад

Fantastic retrospective on the excellent career of Randy Bass. As much as I wonder about what he could've done in MLB if given the proper opportunity to develop, it just makes me appreciate the accomplishments he achieved in the Japanese game even more. It's just a shame that Hanshin's corporate management treated him like a cog in the machine that could be replaced on a dime. Thank you for the great videos, Gaijin Baseball. Can't wait to watch the next one.

@mandude123go9 9 месяцев назад

Great to see a all in one encompassing video on Randy Bass, ever since i recently got into npb after this wbc, i kept hearing about the mythical tales of Bass, but never saw anything on him. Thank you for making this video!

@Inspadave 9 месяцев назад

So strange seeing the Seibu stadium without the dome.

@GDavis49 9 месяцев назад

I salute you for nailing the pronunciation of so many Japanese names. But you might want to revisit Gene Mauch and Jack McKeon.

@GaijinBaseball 9 месяцев назад

Yeah Gene Mauch was an honest mistake on my part, and Jack McKeon was because I'm Canadian, and I based my pronunciation off of Dave Keon. Again, my bad

@GDavis49 8 месяцев назад

@@GaijinBaseball👍

@RicciChoi1109 9 месяцев назад

After more than 30 years searching for another Randy Bass, Tigers finally got him in the 2020 draft - Teruaki Sato. 😅

@victorfalkemback 6 месяцев назад

It went pretty well lol

@GaijinBaseball 9 месяцев назад

Just noticed that a Patron's name didn't show up in the final board, even though I mentioned him, sorry Eriq. Also, the usual musical fadout I do was cut short by a copyright claim from Nippon Columbia, which is why I typically use the Tom O'Malley version of "Winds of Mt. Rokko", it's just the schpiel went on too long and I didn't want to expose y'all to the second chorus because well... it's hard to listen to. Anyways, Thanks for all the support as always. CORRECTIONS: 1. BASS was the 5th American MVP 2. OCHIAI WAS TRADED, NOT A FREE AGENT. This is massive mistake and that part of the video was too big to trim out. I'm a moron who didn't double check that and rolled with it.

@reubena7854 5 месяцев назад

What an awesome video, I've never teared up over sports before

@kaijudirector5336 6 месяцев назад

All I can say is, its fortunate that Hanshin doesn't own a bathroom hardware store chain or a bathhouse chain otherwise they'd have to find a third way to spell his name.

@Nein1no 9 месяцев назад

You absolutely hit it out of the park with this one.

@MoHimdi 9 месяцев назад

Great video man, very entertaining and educational. Keep grinding and putting out content like this and your channel will get big, I know it. The quality is too good for the algorithm not to recommend your stuff to people.

@VintageYakyu 9 месяцев назад

Great documentary on Bass. Thank you for sharing it.

@dafttassia1960 9 месяцев назад

Quality work as usual

@bairkothmann2731 9 месяцев назад

Amazing video as usual I was so excited for this one!

@maxmiller6125 9 месяцев назад

Take all the time you need! Hope the long project will be a fulfilling and fruitful experience for you - excited to watch it!

@allnaturalblue 5 месяцев назад

recently discovered your channel and have to say your videos are such helpful and well made resources for learning about NPB. im a new fan so i really appreciate the stuff you cover here!

@SavetheRepublic 9 месяцев назад

Bass is why I'm a Tigers fan today.

@kaijudirector5336 6 месяцев назад

Same here to an extent. The Curse is probably the main reason why I became a Hanshin fan, but Bass was such an important part of that he might as well be the main reason by proxy. That and I love his story of how despite being gaijin, the Hanshin fan base chose to love him all the same. It’s like how certain gaijin pro-wrestlers (Bobo Brazil, Terry Funk, Stan Hansen) were equally well loved .

@supersasukemaniac 4 месяца назад

@@kaijudirector5336 fun fact: Bass and Hanson where friends.

@ryan_alexander 9 месяцев назад

Calling AAA nobodies "Minor League jobbers" is so goddamn funny, I'm giving you a sub just for that

@matthewlaird4009 9 месяцев назад

Padre for life Randy Bass

@kty1245 6 месяцев назад

Randy Bass isn't a legend. He's a GOD. Not an exaggeration, he's literally considered as a god-like figure among Hashin fans in Osaka.

@OliveOilFan 9 месяцев назад

I'm surprised they never retired his number

@anthonypang7927 9 месяцев назад

I agree with you there But npb organisations are not as big into retiring numbers, i was told at one point in the case of many teams that with a change of ownership it's as though the history of the side has never existed I get it, hanshin never changed ownership so they have more of a case to retire Bass' number In other organisations, I'm sure nomura's number is worthy of retirement for softbank hawks even though he played under nankai ownership, harimoto for the fighters is surely worthy too but he played when they were toei flyers, I'm also sure kaneda is worthy of one for the swallows too and there are a few others I'm always surprised at the lack of retired numbers

@stigthe1227 9 месяцев назад

@@anthonypang7927 The Tigers are notorious for not retiring numbers. Kakefu, Okada aren’t retired numbers so Bass won’t be. In the case of Nomura he had a really bad relationship with the Hawks that only resumed right before his death. Also Kaneda is already a retired number with the Giants so that’s going to be highly unlikely

@thatdudeoverthere5459 5 месяцев назад

Never knew he was that good of a prospect, shame the MLB cant seem to like him enough to give him games.

@jeronwade930 9 месяцев назад

Where do you get the footage is their any full game footage

@GaijinBaseball 9 месяцев назад

The highlight packs for games 1-6 of the 85 Japan Series can be found pretty easily if you search "1985年日本シリーズ" A lot of other footage game from short segments as well as these two docs One covering notable foreign players for the 60s throught the 80s that sadly seems to have been taken down One covering every player who hit over 400 homers before the mid-90s: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uK9Ae8OarYc.htmlsi=QnT28t2zBsNOnm_T And I also use this doc on pre-1996 no-hitters a lot: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-G_U7ygRWzNk.htmlsi=QLeiphJoIBas7gX0

@supersasukemaniac 4 месяца назад

8:39 to be fair he was hitting Cleanup,if you can't hit Homers, you aren't a really good cleanup guy.