{
  "id": 6550708,
  "title": "Legendary Baseball Hitter Isao Harimoto Dies at 86",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/legendary-baseball-hitter-isao-harimoto-dies-at-86",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-10T05:46:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Nippon.com News",
    "slug": "nippon-com-news",
    "url": "https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2026091000399/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Tokyo, Sept. 10 (Jiji Press)--Isao Harimoto, the first and only player in the history of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball Organization, or NPB, to achieve more than 3,000 career hits, died on Wednesday afternoon, it was learned Thursday. He was 86. Harimoto collected a total of 3,085 hits during his 23-year career at the NPB. Born in the western Japan city of Hiroshima, he started hi...",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Mainichi",
        "title": "Japanese baseball legend Isao Harimoto, touted as 'hit machine,' dies at 86",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/japanese-baseball-legend-isao-harimoto-touted-as-hit-machine-dies-at",
        "published": "2026-09-10T02:15:28.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "Japanese baseball great and atomic bomb survivor Harimoto dies at 86",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/japanese-baseball-great-and-atomic-bomb-survivor-harimoto-dies-at-86",
        "published": "2026-09-10T05:30:36.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}