is a former Japanese baseball player. He played for the

Yomiuri Giants The are a Japanese professional baseball team competing in Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League. Based in Bunkyo, Tokyo, they are one of two professional baseball teams based in Tokyo, the other being the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. They ...

in the

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. Shozo Doi also served as a manager for

Ichiro Suzuki , also known mononymously as , is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder who played professionally for 28 seasons. He played nine years of his career with the Orix BlueWave of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), where he began his ...

. He was highly hated during his time as manager of the Orix BlueWave from 1991 to 1993 because he replaced longtime manager

Toshiharu Ueda was a professional Japanese baseball player, coach, and manager. He was elected to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame The is a museum which includes a library, reference rooms and . It first opened in 1959 next door to Korakuen Stadium in ...

, who led the team to their 3 Japan Series titles under

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. This also caused key player Greg "Boomer" Wells to request a trade to the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks because Doi (unlike Ueda), did not listen or even care that he was a triple crown winner, won 2 Gold Gloves or was an 8-year NPB veteran, and only saw him as a foreign player who should do as he was told. Under Ueda, Wells built himself as a respected member of the clubhouse. Because of this, the Braves ouendan would constantly taunt Doi from then on when he took the field until he was fired in 1993.

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