Rintaro Sasaki smashed a Japanese national record 140 home runs while he played at Hanamaki Higashi High School. He opted to pass on Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball Draft and instead enroll at Stanford with a goal of eventually being drafted by Major League Baseball.
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