the tornado

Baseball’s Bridge to the Pacific Exhibit at Dodger Stadium By Charlie Vascellaro These days it would be hard to imagine Major League Baseball without the contributions made by Japanese stars like Shohei Ohtani, the game’s top marquee attraction, or impending Hall of Fame inductee Ichiro Suzuki, or the stir created by Hideo “The Tornado” Nomo, when he made his big-league debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1995. Nomo was preceded by pitcher Masanori “Mashi” Murakami as the first Japanese…