Isao Harimoto is the only professional baseball player in history to have a nuclear bomb dropped on him (as a kid he was in Hiroshima in 1945 when the bomb was dropped. His sister died in the blast).
In an unrelated earlier incident when he was four years old his hand was severely burned in an accident which severely disfigured it, forcing him to play ball left handed for the rest of his life.
He would go on to become Japan’s all time career hits leader (until overtaken by Ichiro, though he still holds the NPB record).
And he is still alive today.
Nothing can stop that guy.
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