All are beloved fictional baseball characters found through the decades within Japanese comic books, the artform now known worldwide as manga. And all stand on equal ground with the likes of Shohei ...

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Naz is returning to the family home near Chicago for the birthday – or near enough – of all-controlling matriarch Claudine (a tornadic LaTanya Richardson Jackson), but the true occasion, or purpose, ...