Before he died, baseball star Mickey Mantle, who was plagued with alcohol problems, told young ballplayers and the fans who admired him to play like me, don't be like me.
In the book, he pointed out that a majority of the post war Japanese prime ministers were blood type O and that many successful baseball players from Japan and Korea were blood type O or type B.
他在书中指出,很多战后的日本首相们是 O 型血,以及很多来自日本和韩国的棒球运动员的血型都是 O 型或者 B 型。
So instead of trying to make it in the US, the professional league in the DR brought over talented American baseball players from the Negro League who were also left out of the MLB.