Koji Uehara-from security guard to stopper

... dream was to teach." In that year off, Uehara read Nolan Ryan's "Pitching Bible". From it, he learned new weight training techniques that helped him bulk up, which in turn led to an uptick in his pitching velocity. He entered Osaka University of ...

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