He earned a bad-boy image later for being suspended from high school for smoking a cigarette, illegal for minors here, and posing nude for a magazine in 2007. By then, he was known across the country for having pitched a no-hitter in the spring version of a prestigious national high school baseball tournament that March. In 2004, the Nippon Ham Fighters selected Darvish in the first round of the draft as a high schooler. “It hasn’t been an issue since I was little.” “Kids used to say stuff all the time about how I was different,” Darvish said in Japanese, playing down the suggestion that wearing the national team uniform gave him extra satisfaction in light of such teasing. His lanky 6-foot-5-inch build and distinctive facial features would be enough to make him stand out anywhere, but in a homogenous land, a family name that sounded like none other gave him unwanted attention growing up.
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Darvish had an opportunity to sign with an MLB club coming out of high school, but chose to play in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball league instead. The Angels and Braves were scouting Darvish as early as when he was in junior high. When he got his first Little League hit, he was hooked. He remembers his father pushing him toward soccer as a child, but he found something enchanting about the baseball games he saw on television. But he had traveled to Iran and the United States, where his parents met while studying at Eckerd College in St. He had never lived outside his birth country. The son of Farsad, an Iranian father, and Ikuyo, a Japanese mother, Darvish was born and raised in Osaka, Japan. The embarrassing news came as Tokyo tries to get baseball reinstated as an Olympic sport in time for its hosting of the 2020 games, after it lost the status in 2008.Yu's grandfather was a travel agent in Iran and sent his son, Farsad, to the United States in 1977 to attend high school in Massachusetts. The findings by Nippon Professional Baseball, the professional domestic league, follow revelations earlier this month that another player had also been involved in illegal betting. The arrest came a week after two pitchers with the Yomiuri Giants - Japan's New York Yankees in terms of popularity and commercial reach - were found to have gambled on baseball games. In 2013, the now 29-year-old lead the major leagues with 277 strikeouts and he reached 500 major league career strikeouts in fewer innings than any other pitcher. Gambling in Japan is generally illegal, including most sports betting.ĭarvish's older brother was a star in Japan's professional league before joining the Major League Baseball team three years ago. Police said they could not immediately comment on the reported arrest. It was not clear if any of the bets involved Texas Rangers' games.
Public broadcaster NHK and other local media said Sho Darvish, 26, was taken into custody along with seven others in Osaka, while the Asahi newspaper said the group had been accused of taking bets worth some 18.5 million yen ($154,000).
Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish pictured during the fourth inning of the Toronto Blue Jays game at Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas on August 26, 2015
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