Japanese baseball legend Isao Harimoto, touted as "hit machine," dies at 86

Japanese baseball great Isao Harimoto, the Nippon Professional Baseball record holder with 3,085 hits, died at a hospital in Tokyo on Wednesday, the Golden Players Club said. He was 86.Atomic bomb survivor Harimoto, a Japanese Baseball Hall of Famer, achieved the feat despite severe burns from an accident at age 4 that left him with limited mobility in the fingers of his right hand."He carved an immortal footprint in Japanese baseball history by becoming the first player to achieve the great feat of 3,000 hits," the Golden Players Club said.Born in Hiroshima to Korean parents, Harimoto surv…READ FULL ARTICLE