EDITOR’S NOTE: Former Los Angeles Dodger pitchers Hideo Nomo and Chan Ho Park, along with Peter O’Malley, former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers and his sister, Terry O’Malley Seidler, are partners in Verotown LLC, the group now leasing and operating the Vero Beach Sports Village.
BY JASON COSKREY/JAPAN TIMES
The paths of former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Hideo Nomo and former owner and team president Peter O’Malley didn’t cross during the latter’s recent trip to Japan.
O’Malley was in Tokyo on Saturday to open an exhibit in the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame highlighting his family’s many ties and contributions to Japanese baseball — a history that most famously includes O’Malley signing Nomo to play for the Dodgers — while Nomo was out of the country.
“He’s a close friend,” O’Malley told The Japan Times. “He’s in Los Angeles, I’ll see him over the weekend. Coincidentally, he’s there and I’m here.”
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