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Celebratory parade by Japan Series champ Hawks

SoftBank Hawks chairman and Nippon Professional Baseball all-time home run king Sadaharu Oh (L) waves to fans during a parade in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 24, 2025, after the Pacific League team clinched the Japan Series title for the 2025 season.

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Memorial ceremony for Japanese baseball legend Nagashima

Japanese pro baseball's all-time home run king Sadaharu Oh delivers a eulogy at a memorial ceremony held at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2025, for Japanese baseball legend Shigeo Nagashima, the former Yomiuri Giants star player and manager who died in June. (Pool photo)

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Memorial ceremony for Japanese baseball legend Nagashima

Japanese pro baseball's all-time home run king Sadaharu Oh delivers a eulogy at a memorial ceremony held at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2025, for Japanese baseball legend Shigeo Nagashima, the former Yomiuri Giants star player and manager who died in June. (Pool photo)

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Memorial ceremony for Japanese baseball legend Nagashima

Japanese pro baseball's all-time home run king Sadaharu Oh deliver a eulogy at a memorial ceremony held at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2025, for Japanese baseball legend Shigeo Nagashima, the former Yomiuri Giants star player and manager who died in June. (Pool photo)

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Memorial ceremony for Japanese baseball legend Nagashima

Japanese pro baseball's all-time home run king Sadaharu Oh deliver a eulogy at a memorial ceremony held at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2025, for Japanese baseball legend Shigeo Nagashima, the former Yomiuri Giants star player and manager who died in June. (Pool photo)

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Memorial ceremony for Japanese baseball legend Nagashima

Japanese pro baseball's all-time home run king and SoftBank Hawks Chairman Sadaharu Oh delivers a eulogy at a memorial ceremony held at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2025, for Japanese baseball legend Shigeo Nagashima, the former Yomiuri Giants star player and manager who died in June.

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Order of Culture Award

Japanese pro baseball's all-time home run king and chairman of the SoftBank Hawks Sadaharu Oh attends a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2025, after receiving the Order of Culture, Japan's top cultural award, at an Imperial Palace ceremony.

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Order of Culture Award

Japanese pro baseball's all-time home run king and chairman of the SoftBank Hawks Sadaharu Oh (R) receives the Order of Culture, Japan's top cultural award, from Emperor Naruhito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Order of Culture Award

Japanese pro baseball's all-time home run king and chairman of the SoftBank Hawks Sadaharu Oh attends a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2025, after receiving the Order of Culture, Japan's top cultural award, at an Imperial Palace ceremony.

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Order of Culture Award

Japanese pro baseball's all-time home run king and chairman of the SoftBank Hawks Sadaharu Oh attends a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2025, after receiving the Order of Culture, Japan's top cultural award, at an Imperial Palace ceremony.

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All-time home run king Oh launches new organization for Japan sports

TOKYO, Japan, June 26 Kyodo - Japanese pro baseball home run king and SoftBank Hawks Chairman Sadaharu Oh holds a press conference in Tokyo on June 26, 2025, to announce the launch of Kyushinkai, a new organization aimed at boosting baseball's popularity. The organization will also support his "Beyond Oh Project," designed to produce global sports heroes from Japan, according to Oh, who will work with 2023 World Baseball Classic manager Hideki Kuriyama. (Kyodo)

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All-time home run king Oh launches new organization for Japan sports

Japanese pro baseball home run king and SoftBank Hawks Chairman Sadaharu Oh holds a press conference in Tokyo on June 26, 2025, to announce the launch of Kyushinkai, a new organization aimed at boosting baseball's popularity. The organization will also support his "Beyond Oh Project," designed to produce global sports heroes from Japan, according to Oh.

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All-time home run king Oh launches new organization for Japan sports

Japanese pro baseball home run king and SoftBank Hawks Chairman Sadaharu Oh (R) holds a press conference in Tokyo on June 26, 2025, to announce the launch of Kyushinkai, a new organization aimed at boosting baseball's popularity. The organization will also support his "Beyond Oh Project," designed to produce global sports heroes from Japan, according to Oh, who will work with 2023 World Baseball Classic manager Hideki Kuriyama (L).

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All-time home run king Oh launches new organization for Japan sports

Japanese pro baseball home run king and SoftBank Hawks Chairman Sadaharu Oh (R) holds a press conference in Tokyo on June 26, 2025, to announce the launch of Kyushinkai, a new organization aimed at boosting baseball's popularity. The organization will also support his "Beyond Oh Project," designed to produce global sports heroes from Japan, according to Oh, who will work with 2023 World Baseball Classic manager Hideki Kuriyama (L).

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Japanese baseball legend Nagashima dies at 89

Japanese pro baseball's all-time home run king and chairman of the SoftBank Hawks Sadaharu Oh meets the press in Tokyo on June 3, 2025, after former Yomiuri Giants player and manager Shigeo Nagashima died aged 89 earlier in the day. Nagashima and Oh led the Giants to nine consecutive Central League and Japan Series titles from 1965 to 1973.

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Japanese baseball legend Nagashima dies at 89

Japanese pro baseball's all-time home run king and chairman of the SoftBank Hawks Sadaharu Oh meets the press in Tokyo on June 3, 2025, after former Yomiuri Giants player and manager Shigeo Nagashima died aged 89 earlier in the day. Nagashima and Oh led the Giants to nine consecutive Central League and Japan Series titles from 1965 to 1973.

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Japanese baseball legend Nagashima dies at 89

Japanese pro baseball's all-time home run king and chairman of the SoftBank Hawks Sadaharu Oh is pictured after making a condolence visit to the late Shigeo Nagashima's home at an unidentified location on June 3, 2025, after the Japanese baseball legend, a former Yomiuri Giants third baseman and manager, died aged 89 earlier in the day. Nagashima and Oh led the Giants to nine consecutive Central League and Japan Series titles from 1965 to 1973.

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Japanese baseball legend Nagashima dies at 89

Japanese pro baseball's all-time home run king and chairman of the SoftBank Hawks Sadaharu Oh makes a condolence visit to the late Shigeo Nagashima's home at an unidentified location on June 3, 2025, after the Japanese baseball legend, a former Yomiuri Giants third baseman and manager, died aged 89 earlier in the day. Nagashima and Oh led the Giants to nine consecutive Central League and Japan Series titles from 1965 to 1973.

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Japanese baseball legend Nagashima dies at 89

Japanese pro baseball's all-time home run king and chairman of the SoftBank Hawks Sadaharu Oh meets the press in Tokyo on June 3, 2025, after former Yomiuri Giants player and manager Shigeo Nagashima died aged 89 earlier in the day. Nagashima and Oh led the Giants to nine consecutive Central League and Japan Series titles from 1965 to 1973.

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Japanese baseball legend Nagashima dies at 89

Japanese pro baseball's all-time home run king and chairman of the SoftBank Hawks Sadaharu Oh meets the press in Tokyo on June 3, 2025, after former Yomiuri Giants player and manager Shigeo Nagashima died aged 89 earlier in the day. Nagashima and Oh led the Giants to nine consecutive Central League and Japan Series titles from 1965 to 1973.

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Japanese baseball legend Nagashima dies at 89

Japanese pro baseball's all-time home run king and chairman of the SoftBank Hawks Sadaharu Oh meets the press in Tokyo on June 3, 2025, after former Yomiuri Giants player and manager Shigeo Nagashima died aged 89 earlier in the day. Nagashima and Oh led the Giants to nine consecutive Central League and Japan Series titles from 1965 to 1973.

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Japanese baseball legend Nagashima dies at 89

File photo taken March 3, 1995, shows Yomiuri Giants manager Shigeo Nagashima (R) and Daiei Hawks manager Sadaharu Oh shaking hands prior to a preseason baseball game in Oita, southwestern Japan. Nagashima, who was a key player on the Giants team that won nine consecutive Central League and Japan Series titles from 1965 to 1973 and later managed the club, died on June 3, 2025, aged 89.

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Japanese baseball legend Nagashima dies at 89

File photo taken Oct. 14, 1974, shows Yomiuri Giants third baseman Shigeo Nagashima (facing camera) chatting with first baseman Sadaharu Oh (1) and manager Tetsuharu Kawakami (77) after making a speech at his retirement ceremony at Tokyo's Korakuen Stadium. Nagashima, who was a key player on the Giants team that won nine consecutive Central League and Japan Series titles from 1965 to 1973 and later managed the club, died on June 3, 2025, aged 89.

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Japanese baseball legend Nagashima dies at 89

File photo taken July 23, 2021, shows former Yomiuri Giants players (from R) Sadaharu Oh, Hideki Matsui and Shigeo Nagashima serving as torch runners during the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics at National Stadium. Nagashima, who was a key player on the Giants team that won nine consecutive Central League and Japan Series titles from 1965 to 1973 and later managed the club, died on June 3, 2025, aged 89.

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Japanese baseball legend Nagashima dies at 89

Yomiuri Giants sluggers Shigeo Nagashima (R) and Sadaharu Oh pose during spring training in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 15, 1970. Nagashima, who was a key player together with Oh on the Giants team that won nine consecutive Central League and Japan Series titles from 1965 to 1973 and later managed the club, died on June 3, 2025, aged 89.

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Baseball: SoftBank Hawks pitcher Wada retires

SoftBank Hawks pitcher Tsuyoshi Wada (L) receives a bouquet from the club's chairman Sadaharu Oh during a ceremony marking his retirement from professional baseball at Mizuho PayPay Dome in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka on March 15, 2025.

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Baseball: MLB Tokyo Series

Japan's all-time home run king Sadaharu Oh (front, 2nd from R) meets with a Los Angeles Dodgers player and manager Dave Roberts (front, R) at Tokyo Dome on March 18, 2025, prior to the first game of MLB's two-game, season-opening Tokyo Series between the Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs.

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Baseball: MLB Tokyo Series

Japan's all-time home run king Sadaharu Oh (L) shakes hands with Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts at Tokyo Dome on March 18, 2025, prior to the first game of MLB's two-game, season-opening Tokyo Series between the Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs.

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Baseball: Ichiro joins Japan Hall of Fame

Former Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki (L) poses for a photo with Sadaharu Oh, Japanese pro baseball's all-time home run leader and chairman of the SoftBank Hawks, at Japan's Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Tokyo on Jan. 16, 2025. Suzuki was announced as one of 2025's new inductees earlier in the day. (Pool photo)

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Baseball: Ichiro joins Japan Hall of Fame

Former Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki (L) poses for a photo with Sadaharu Oh, Japanese pro baseball's all-time home run leader and chairman of the SoftBank Hawks, at Japan's Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Tokyo on Jan. 16, 2025. Suzuki was announced as one of 2025's new inductees earlier in the day. (Pool photo)

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Baseball: Daisuke Matsuzaka

Pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka shows his No. 18 jersey with team chairman Sadaharu Oh after signing with the Softbank Hawks during an introductory press conference in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka on Dec. 5, 2014.

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Oh tosses pitch at Taipei Dome

Japan's all-time home run king Sadaharu Oh throws out the ceremonial first pitch at the newly completed Taipei Dome, Taiwan's first indoor baseball stadium, on the eve of the venue's first international game in Taipei on Dec. 2, 2023.

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Baseball: Kokubo unveiled as new SoftBank manager

Hiroki Kokubo (L), new manager of pro baseball team SoftBank Hawks, shakes hands with team chairman Sadaharu Oh during a press conference in the southwestern Japanese city of Fukuoka on Oct. 23, 2023.

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Baseball: SoftBank Hawks chairman Oh

Sadaharu Oh, Japanese pro baseball's all-time home run leader and chairman of the SoftBank Hawks, is pictured at PayPay Dome in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka on Oct. 3, 2023.

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Baseball: SoftBank Hawks chairman Oh

Sadaharu Oh, Japanese pro baseball's all-time home run leader and chairman of the SoftBank Hawks, is pictured at PayPay Dome in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka on Oct. 3, 2023.

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Baseball gear at Hall of Fame museum

Photo taken on April 18, 2023, shows a first baseman glove used by legendary former professional Japanese player Sadaharu Oh at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.

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SoftBank Hawks chairman Oh

Sadaharu Oh, chairman of the SoftBank Hawks pro baseball team, raises his sake cup for a toast during a New Year ceremony at PayPay Dome in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 5, 2023.

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SoftBank Hawks chairman Oh

Sadaharu Oh (3rd from L), chairman of the SoftBank Hawks pro baseball team, breaks open the lid of a sake barrel during a New Year ceremony at PayPay Dome in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 5, 2023.

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(3)Softbank's purchase of Hawks gets final nod

FUKUOKA, Japan - Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son (L in middle) and the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks manager Sadaharu Oh (R in middle) pose for photos with young baseball fans at a Fukuoka hotel on Dec. 24. Softbank officially became the baseball club's owner the same day after obtaining approval for its purchase of the Daiei Hawks from debt-ridden retail giant Daiei Inc.

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(2)Softbank's purchase of Hawks gets final nod

FUKUOKA, Japan - Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son (R) and Daiei Hawks manager Sadaharu Oh hold up the logo of the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks at a Fukuoka hotel on Dec. 24 as Softbank officially became the baseball club's owner the same day.

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Mother of baseball legend Oh dies at 108

TOKYO, Japan - This photo shows Tomi Oh, the mother of the world's home run record holder and Softbank Hawks Chairman Sadaharu Oh, watching a baseball game at Yahoo Dome in Fukuoka in June 1995. She died of pneumonia Aug. 16, 2010, at the age of 108.

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Mother of baseball legend Oh dies at 108

TOKYO, Japan - This undated file photo shows Tomi Oh, the mother of the world's home run record holder and Softbank Hawks Chairman Sadaharu Oh. She died of pneumonia Aug. 16, 2010, at the age of 108.

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Baseball great Oh to support Tokyo's 2016 Olympic bid

TOKYO, Japan - Legendary home run king Sadaharu Oh (L) and Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara shake hands during a signing ceremony for an annual youth baseball tournament in Tokyo on April 10. Oh pledged to lend his support for Tokyo's bid to host the 2016 Olympics and Paralympics.

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(1)Softbank's purchase of Hawks gets final nod

FUKUOKA, Japan - Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son (R) and Daiei Hawks manager Sadaharu Oh shake hands at Fukuoka Dome on Dec. 24 as Softbank officially became the baseball club's owner the same day. The Internet service provider obtained approval for its purchase of the Daiei Hawks from debt-ridden retail giant Daiei Inc.

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Hawks players visit shrine to wish for victorious 2014 season

FUKUOKA, Japan - Fukuoka Softbank Hawks players watch manager Koji Akiyama (2nd from L), Sadaharu Oh (3rd), chairman of the professional baseball club, and two others break the cover of a sake barrel with baseball bats as part of a traditional ceremony to wish for a victorious 2014 season for the team at the Hakozaki Shrine in Fukuoka on Jan. 30, 2014.

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Former MLB pitcher Houlton joins Hawks

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Former Los Angeles Dodgers' pitcher D.J. Houlton (L) poses for a photo with Softbank Hawks' manager Sadaharu Oh (R) at the team's spring camp site in Miyazaki in southwestern Japan on Feb. 5 after a news conference on his joining the Pacific League baseball club.

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Japanese high school baseball c'ship celebrates 100th year

NISHINOMIYA, Japan, Aug. 6 Kyodo - All-time home run king Sadaharu Oh throws the ceremonial first pitch at the start of the national high school baseball championship at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Japan, on Aug. 6, 2015, the 100th year since the inaugural tournament was held.

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Softbank Hawks pro baseball club starts 2015 season

TOKYO, Japan - Softbank Hawks chairman Sadaharu Oh (2nd from L) and other executives of the Japanese professional baseball team break the lid of a sake barrel with baseball bats during a ceremony on Jan. 6, 2015, to start the new year at its home Fukuoka Yahuoku! Dome in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 6, 2015.

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'Best Nine of 80 Years' in Japanese professional baseball

TOKYO, Japan - Shigeo Nagashima and Sadaharu Oh (from L, front row) and Yutaka Fukumoto and Koji Yamamoto (from L, back row) smile at a Tokyo hotel on Nov. 26, 2014, following their selection as members of the "Best Nine of 80 Years" by the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization.

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'Best nine of 80 years' in Japanese professional baseball

TOKYO, Japan - Seven members of the Japanese professional baseball league's "Best Nine of 80 years" pose after their selection at a ceremony in Tokyo on Nov. 26, 2014. (From L, front row) shortstop Yoshio Yoshida, third baseman Shigeo Nagashima, first baseman Sadaharu Oh and second baseman Morimichi Takagi; (from L, back row) outfielders Yutaka Fukumoto, Koji Yamamoto and Isao Harimoto.