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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Orix BlueWave, Orix Buffaloes players, Orix Buffaloes seasons, Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes, Hisashi Iwakuma, Chan-Ho Park, 2009 Orix Buffaloes season, Terry Collins, So Taguchi, Karim Garcia, Mac Suzuki, Lee Seung-Yeop, Dan Serafini, Alex Cabrera, Ramon Ortiz, Mike Hessman, Tuffy Rhodes, Randall Simon, Jeremy Powell, Norihiro Nakamura, Alfredo Figaro, Kazuhiro Kiyohara, John Koronka, Fernando Seguignol, Masato Yoshii, Kevin Beirne, Lance Carter, Cliff Brumbaugh, Ryan Vogelsong, Eric Junge, Jose Fernandez, Osaka Dome, Masahide Kobayashi, Chad Allen, Evan MacLane, Aarom Baldiris, Freddie Bynum, Tom Davey, Tomochika Tsuboi, Jason Grabowski, Satoshi Komatsu, Yoshitomo Tani, Wes Obermueller, Jose Parra, Jon Leicester, Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium, Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium, Arihito Muramatsu, Greg LaRocca, Josh Stewart, Kenta Abe, Daisuke Hayakawa, Masahiro Abe, Naoyuki Ohmura, Shogo Yamamoto, Shogo Akada, Yoshihisa Hirano, Hiroyuki Oze, Takashi Aiki, Mamoru Kishida, Ryota Aikawa, Shinya Nakayama, Keiji Obiki, Daisuke Kato, Osaka Stadium, Fujiidera Stadium, Chihiro Kaneko, Tetsuya Matoyama. Excerpt: Hisashi Iwakuma Iwakuma Hisashi, born April 12, 1981 in Higashiyamato, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese professional baseball player. He is currently the starting pitcher for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. As the Eagles' reigning staff ace, Iwakuma won the Eiji Sawamura Award in 2008 and played in the 2004 Athens Olympics as well as the 2009 World Baseball Classic for the Japanese national team. Iwakuma was born in Higashiyamato, Tokyo, and began playing baseball in the first grade before attending Horikoshi High School in Nakano. While he never made it to a national tournament during his high school career, he led his team to the semi-finals of the West Tokyo Tournament as a senior in the summer of 1999. The Osaka Kintetsu ...