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O'DOUL, Frank

Helps improve Japanese baseball from pre-war days

Inducted	2002
Category	Elected by Special Committee in the interim New Century category
From	California
Born	March 4,1897
Died	December 7,1969
Alma Mater

From the first time he came to Japan in 1931, he helped improve baseball in Japan. He was an incentive to the birth of current pro baseball (1936)and in 1949 he took his S.F. Seals to the war-torn Japan as goodwill ambassador.

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