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Isao Harimoto, Hiroshima survivor and a baseball star in Japan, dies at 86

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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.

First report: Japanese baseball legend Isao Harimoto, touted as 'hit machine,' dies at 86 — mainichi.jp, 5d