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Isao Harimoto, A-bomb survivor and Japan baseball great known as 'Hit Machine,' dies at 86

Headline from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

He earned the nickname Hit Machine for collecting a record 3,085 of them in a long career than stretched from the late 1950s to the early ’80s.

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  1. Al Jazeera

    Japan baseball great and atomic bomb survivor Isao Harimoto dies aged 86 (opens Al Jazeera)

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    Harimoto, whose record 3,085 career hits still stands, was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1990.

  2. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

    Isao Harimoto, A-bomb survivor and Japan baseball great known as 'Hit Machine,' dies at 86 (opens Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

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    WDIO Duluth's feed description

    Isao Harimoto, the baseball great who survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb and still holds Japan’s hits record, has died. He was 86. The Golden Players Club, an organization for elite baseball players, says Harimoto died on Wednesday without specifying the cause of death.

  3. Philadelphia Inquirer

    Isao Harimoto, Hiroshima survivor and a baseball star in Japan, dies at 86 (opens Philadelphia Inquirer)

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    He earned the nickname Hit Machine for collecting a record 3,085 of them in a long career than stretched from the late 1950s to the early ’80s.

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