Ex-Giants star Yonamine dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in October 1974 shows Wally Yonamine (C), then manager of the Chunichi Dragons professional baseball club, being tossed in the air by Dragons players and fans after the club won the Central League championship at the former Chunichi Stadium in Nagoya. Yonamine, the first foreigner to play professional baseball in Japan after World War II, died in Honolulu on Feb. 28, 2011, aged 85 after battling prostate cancer. (Kyodo)

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