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Sadaharu Oh

1940 - Today

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Sadaharu Oh (Japanese: 王貞治, Ō Sadaharu; born May 20, 1940), also known as Wang Chen-chih (Chinese: 王貞治; pinyin: Wáng Zhēnzhì), is a Japanese-born former professional baseball player and manager who is currently the chairman of the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Oh spent his four-decade long playing career entirely with the Yomiuri Giants. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sadaharu Oh has received more than 840,862 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Sadaharu Oh is the 5th most popular baseball player, the 517th most popular biography from Japan (up from 601st in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Baseball Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 840k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BASEBALL PLAYERS

Among baseball players, Sadaharu Oh ranks 5 out of 74. Before him are Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Jackie Robinson, and Lou Gehrig. After him are Hank Aaron, Cy Young, Ted Williams, Ty Cobb, Mickey Mantle, Alexander Cartwright, and Roberto Clemente.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Sadaharu Oh ranks 140. Before him are Michael Parks, Taihō Kōki, Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma, James L. Brooks, Christoph Eschenbach, and Anna Chromý. After him are Antonio Skármeta, Jeffrey Archer, Richard Pryor, Ira von Fürstenberg, Peter Diamond, and Barbara Valentin.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sadaharu Oh ranks 517 out of 6,048. Before him are Seiichi Itō (1890), Ashikaga Yoshimasa (1435), Kunitaka Sueoka (1917), Yoshihiko Noda (1957), Toshio Hirabayashi (null), and Kondō Isami (1834). After him are Taro Kagawa (1922), Akiko Wakabayashi (1941), Hajime Sugiyama (1880), Masaharu Homma (1888), Chōsokabe Motochika (1539), and Takahashi Korekiyo (1854).

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Among BASEBALL PLAYERS In Japan

Among baseball players born in Japan, Sadaharu Oh ranks 1. After him are Ichiro Suzuki (1973), Daisuke Matsuzaka (1980), Shohei Ohtani (1994), Koji Uehara (1975), and Yu Darvish (1986).

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