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South Korean baseball player (born 1982)
Shin-Soo Choo is a South Korean former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds, and Texas Rangers before ending his career in the KBO League with the SSG Landers. Choo left MLB as the record holder for most career home runs (218) hit by an Asian-born player in the league, which was later passed by Shohei Ohtani.
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North American professional baseball league
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league in North America composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. MLB is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and is considered the premier baseball league in the world. Each team plays 162 games per season, with Opening Day held during the last week of March or the first week of April.
More on Wikipedia ↗It has been two years since he retired from active duty, and a whopping 14 years since he left Cleveland. Yet, in this crucial autumn baseball hanbok edition, the name the Cleveland Guardians recalled was Choo Shin-soo (44).
Choo Shin-soo to throw ceremonial first pitch for Cleveland Guardians after rain delay