Line #132 Characters/Major


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4	!Goro Honda/Goro Shigeno
5	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MotokoKumai (younger), Creator/ShowtaroMorikubo (older)
6	%%* TheAce
7	* BerserkButton: Speaking ill about his father. AbusiveParents also seems one, as seen in the second Little League match.
8	* BookDumb: He's not particularly interested in studying. This causes him trouble since he needs to pass both the athletic and the academic tests to attend Kaido.
9	* BullyHunter: Despite being seemingly uninterested, he stood up to Sawamura and his cronies so they would leave Komori alone.
10	* CharacterTics: His cap often falls off when he's pitching at full force. According to him, this is how he knows he's pitching at his best [[spoiler:which becomes a major plot point during Season 6, when it stops happening due to him having the yips]].
11	* {{Determinator}}: Noted by many characters and at least one [[IncrediblyLamePun major]] example per season.
12	** At the end of season 1, [[spoiler: Goro continues to play with a seriously injured arm that will later in the series unable him to no longer pitch with that arm. This leads him to training himself how to become left-handed, initially doing everything with his left-arm]].
13	* FatalFlaw: His impatience. While his {{Determinator}} attitude is an admirable quality, it often leads him to disregard his own well-being (especially when he suffers injuries) and sometimes overwork himself while trying to surpass his limits.
14	* GoroawaseNumber: Starting on the Minor Leagues, he begins wearing jersey number 56 regularly, matching his given name phonetically.
15	* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:At first, [[DeceasedParentsAreTheBest it doesn't start out that way]] but Goro does warm up to Momoko and later Hideki]].
16	* TheHero: ''Major'' revolves around Goro's baseball life from childhood to adulthood.
17	* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Goes through one thanks to his yips]].
18	* HeroicSafeMode: [[spoiler:When dealing with the yips]].
19	* HotBlooded: Though this begins to die down in later seasons.
20	* ICanStillFight: Part of his determinator personality.
21	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He can be a tad brash and rough around the edges, and quite often is called out for lacking etiquete, but he greatly values his teammates and family.
22	* LanguageBarrier: When he travels to America, his English is... lacking, to say the least, always needing someone to translate for him. He improves with time, though.
23	* LoveRevelationEpiphany: [[spoiler:It takes Taiga basically telling him "My sister loves you and you're friendzoning her, you idiot" for him to start seeing Kaoru as a woman]].
24	* ObliviousToLove: At least when it comes to Kaoru, he never realized that many of her actions were because she was in love with him since childhood.
25	* TookALevelInBadass: Every season he learns a new trick related to pitching that makes him even better.
26	* TraumaButton: [[spoiler:Hitting another player with the ball in the head understandably unnerves him]].
27	* WorfHadTheFlu: Since he was playing with an ankle injury during the match against Kaido, Toshiya believes their victory was only due to this. Especially since he ''[[HandicappedBadass still]]'' [[HandicappedBadass gave them a run for their money]] until he collapsed.
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29	!Toshiya Sato
30	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/FuyukaOura (younger), Creator/MasakazuMorita (older)
31	%%* TheAce
32	* BrokenAce: [[spoiler:Becomes one after his parents abandoned him.]]
33	%%* {{Chessmaster}}
34	%%* ChickMagnet
35	* FirstFriend: To Goro, since he wasn't particularly close to the other kids during kindergarten.
36	* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:Though he is a bit unstable from his ParentalAbandonment, he is genuinely grateful for his grandparents who have taken care of him. It later motivates him to do well in order to pay them back]].
37	* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Implied to have gone through one after his ParentalAbandonment. A smaller one occurs later in season 6 after he meets his sister and remembers old memories. Luckily, he does get better]].
38	* TheLancer: When he's not Goro's rival, he'll fill this role.
39	%%* NiceGuy
40	* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:His parents just left him when he was only a child.]]
41	* RaisedbyGrandparents: [[spoiler:His grandparents take him in.]]
42	* TheRival: Despite playing different positions and having been on the same team numerous times, both Goro and Sato considered themselves each other's rivals.
43	* TheSmartGuy: Usually known as a genius rookie catcher.
44	* TheStrategist: Proven to be a talented one as his potision requires him to be one though at the start of season 6, he starts waning. Luckily, he gets better.
45	* [[spoiler: TraumaCongaLine: Oh boy]].
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47	!Kaoru Shimizu
48	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukoSasamoto
49	* BullyHunter: In elementary school, she was one of the few who stood up to Sawamura and his cronies.
50	* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:To Goro.]]
51	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:Feels this way towards her husband and her children, saying that her dream is for them to be happy]].
52	* PassionateSportsGirl: For softball, though partially to feel closer to Goro.
53	* PatientChildhoodLoveInterest
54	* {{Tsundere}}: Mostly a ''dere'' type, only acting ''tsun'' to Goro, though this dies down in season 6.
55	* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: [[spoiler:In season 1, there was a bit of a minor LoveTriangle where Kaoru had feelings for Goro, who in turn, had feelings for Ryoko. However, Ryoko ended up insulting Goro's deceased father; this, combined with Ryoko being DemotedToExtra, makes it a ForegoneConclusion as to who he ends up with]].
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57	!Daisuke Komori
58	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RieKugimiya (younger), Creator/KoukiMiyata (older)
59	* AffectionateNickname: Some of his closest friends call him "Komorin".
60	* NiceGuy: Willing to forgive people who have bullied him and become very friends with them.
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62	!Ryota Sawamura
63	->'''Voiced by:''' Kahoru Sasajima (younger), Hirofumi Nojima (older)
64	* BullyTurnedBuddy: He started out as a bully towards Komori, but after Goro and Kaoru confront him becomes friends with them.
65	* OutOfFocus: Since in Season 2 he turns to play football again.
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70	[[folder: Introduced in Season 1]]
71	!Shigeharu Honda
72	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakehitoKoyasu
73	* GoodParents: He is very close to his son though is strict when he has to be. When he learned the local little league coach signed Goro up as a pitcher despite being under-aged, Honda Shigeharu forbids him from joining because using the real baseball at a young can seriously harm Goro's hand. Goro does understand and does wait til he's at the proper age to join.
74	* NiceGuy
75	* [[spoiler:TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth]]
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77	!Joe Gibson
78	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KoujiOchiai
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80	* TenMinuteRetirement: Gets forced into retirement due to [[spoiler:heart problems]] at the end of season 5. [[spoiler: This lasts all of 7 episodes before HesBack]].
81	TT* TheAce
82	* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:For killing Shigeharu Honda accidentally. Unfortunately the way he went about it ruined his own family.]]
83	* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:During Season 5, he insists on playing the finals against Japan despite his heart problems (or rather, ''because'' of them, because he expects to die on the mound to atone for killing Shigeharu Honda)]].
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85	!Momoko Shigeno
86	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JunkoNoda
87	* ParentsAsPeople: She does try her honest best to be a good a mother but Goro unintentionally pushes her away at times and she is unsure how to respond to that.
88	* YamatoNadeshiko
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90	!Hideki Shigeno
91	->'''Voiced by:''' Shunsuke Sakuya
92	* [[spoiler: TheAlcoholic: Temporarily becomes one in season 6 when he was failing at his baseball career. He does break out of it]].
93	* {{Foil}}: As a parent, he's one to Joe Gibson - Hideki eventually calls it quits due to getting stuck in a runt, while Gibson is forced into a TenMinuteRetirement due to health reasons. Gibson's son is his biological son, whereas Goro is Hideki's [[spoiler: adoptive]] son, but whereas Joe Gibson doesn't get along with Joe Gibson Jr due to [[spoiler: how Sr. chose to be TheAtoner]], Hideki and Goro get along, even with some disagreements. And while Sr. is unable to give advice to Jr. due to the two playing different positions (and the former never having been in a similar situation), thanks to his experience with Honda, Hideki is easily able to give Goro advice as a pitcher and a player in general.
94	* IWasJustJoking: Twice over the course of the story, he gave some joking advice that people ended up taking to heart:
95	** At the beginning of the story, he tells Shigeharu Honda that, since he can't pitch, he could make a comeback as a batter, and it turns out he can be pretty effective as a pinch hitter.
96	** In Season 5, he suggests Goro he could join the All-Star Japan team as a pitcher for batting practice. This leads to Goro being drafted into the team's roster despite not making the deadline.
97	* ParentsAsPeople: Not that he isn't a good father but does have problems getting through to Goro. Does offer Goro advice from time to time and is the one who suggested to [[spoiler: switch arm dominance when Goro couldn't use is pitch with his right arm no longer]].
98	* NiceGuy
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100	!Ryoko Kawase
101	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KumikoEndou
102	%%* ActionGirl
103	* AdaptationExpansion: She only appeared in season 1 in the manga. However, in season 3 of the anime, she trains Goro with her sliders while in the manga, it was Taiga.
104	* BraidsOfAction: Kept her hair this way in season 1.
105	* InnocentlyInsensitive: [[spoiler:Her comment about Joe Gibson's dead ball being the other player's fault. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone She's naturally horrified to know that it was Goro's late father]].]]
106	* PassionateSportsGirl
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110	[[folder: Introduced in Yuujou no Ikkyuu]]
111	!Masato Koga
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113	* GreenEyedMonster: At first, to Goro when he joins their team.
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115	!Megumi Koga
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117	* BigBrotherWorship
118	* NiceGirl: Once they get past the misunderstandings, it turns out she's very sweet.
119	* SinsOfOurFathers: Downplayed, but she and her brother take to dislike Goro when they learn who his father is. [[spoiler:As it turns out, Shigeno took the spot as the ace of the same team their father plays at, and they blame him for it]].
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124	[[folder: Introduced in Season 2]]
125	!Shingo Shigeno
126	* BigBrotherWorship: For Goro, obviously.
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128	!Masataka Oobayashi
129	->'''Voiced by:'''Creator/AyumiHasegawa
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131	!Yamane Yoshitaka
132	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HidekiOgihara
133	* FreudianExcuse: He seeks to get the baseball club shut down because he can't stand seeing others play in front of him. In truth, he ''wants'' to play again and is bitter because his injury hasn't healed and thus he can't. Or so he thinks at first.
134	* {{Jerkass}}: Until Goro talked sense into him and Komori was willing to be friends with him.
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136	!Egashira Tetsufumi
137	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaikiNakamura
138	* BigBad: Of season 2 and 3.
139	* EvilIsPetty: The lengths he goes to screw with Goro just because he refused to play for Kaido include denying him entry to any school with a baseball team, and then intentionally getting him injured in a friendly match. All just because he wouldn't serve as his poster boy to bolster the academy's prestige.
140	* FourEyesZeroSoul: With the occasional ScaryShinyGlasses, to top it off.
141	* HateSink: It's probably easier to list moments where he ''doesn't'' fit this trope than ones that do. In fact, he's the closest thing this series has to an outright villain.
142	* IfICantHaveYou: A rare non-romantic variant. His whole attitude towards Goro can be summed up as "If you won't play for me, you won't play at all", and goes to extreme lengths to prevent him from playing baseball.
143	* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: His abuse of his abilities and harsh style of teaching get him fired]].
144	* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: When Goro refuses to become the star of Kaido like he wants, he sends word to every major school with a baseball team, threatening to sue them if they accept him as revenge. Of course, [[LoopholeAbuse he wasn't counting on him enrolling in a school]] ''[[LoopholeAbuse without]]'' [[LoopholeAbuse a baseball club and start it himself]].
145	* VillainousBreakdown: He grows increasingly more and more deranged towards the end of the Kaido vs Seisshu match, screaming in rage and expelling the players for disobeying his orders.
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147	!Shizuka Saotome
148	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SayakaOhara
149	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Introduces herself as a cheerful coach for the Kaido team, but later confesses that she wants to see the Dream Island team get crushed mercilessly by the Scholarship Team, all with a smile in her face. [[spoiler:Subverted, as it turns out she has ''very'' good reasons to act that way.]]
150	* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:As it turns out, she wants the players to follow Kaido's manual to the letter to prevent them from getting injured, or worse, dying, like her oldest brother did due to overworking himself in the matches]].
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152	!Taizou Saotome
153	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KentaMiyake
154	* ManlyGay
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156	!Inui
157	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkimitsuTakase
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159	!Ken Mayumura
160	* TheAce
161	* TheStoic: Doesn't have much to say, but is always composed for baseball games.
162	* WorthyOpponent: Eventually comes to see Goro as this, and laments he couldn't face him properly due to his injuries.
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164	!Naoki Enomoto
165	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakahiroSakurai
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167	!Ichiro Yamada
168	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenyuuHoriuchi
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170	!Ayane Suzuki
171	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MinoriChihara
172	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Despite being Sato's potential love interest, we never see her again after her one appearance in season 4.
173	* CuteSportsClubManager: Becomes this to Mifune East during her final year.
174	* GirlishPigtails: Wears her hair in twin braids during middle school, but [[LettingHerHairDown drops them]] from Season 3 onwards.
175	* ShipTease: Despite being smitten with Toshiya, she has some moments of this with Taiga, as the two grow close due to being in the same class and being in the baseball club.
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178	[[folder: Introduced in Season 3]]
179	!Fuji
180	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakeshiKusao
181	* ButtMonkey
182	* DelinquentHair
183	* HopelessSuitor: For Kaoru, who finds him annoying.
184	* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:Eventually marries Miho Nakamura]].
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186	!Tashiro
187	->'''Voiced by:''' Norihisa Mori
188	* {{Jerkass}}: Pre CharacterDevelopment.
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190	!Taiga Shimizu
191	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RomiPark
192	* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Sometimes he can be this due to his attitude, and Kaoru berates him for it.
193	* InsufferableGenius: He's a bit arrogant by virtue of being the only player (other than Goro) who's skilled enough to hold his own in the Seisshu team.
194	* DeadpanSnarker
195	* LoveConfessor: [[spoiler:Acts as the middleman to get Goro to understand Kaoru's feelings for him]].
196	* ShipTease: Has some moments with Ayane.
197	* YouAreInCommandNow: After Goro leaves the Seisshu baseball club, he becomes the new captain.
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199	!Miyazaki
200	* BlindWithoutEm: He can't see without his glasses. [[spoiler:This brings Seisshu a lot of trouble during the Mifune match, since they're broken accidentally and he can't play that way]].
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202	!Ichiro Yamada/Steve Timothy
203	* AccidentalMisnaming: He refers to Goro as "Nogoro-kun" due to misreading his name as "Shige Nogoro". Even after being corrected he still sticks with the nickname.
204	* GratuitousEnglish: Well, he's American by birth and an English teacher.
205	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
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207	!Miho Nakamura
208	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KanaUeda
209	* AdrenalineMakeover: At season 4.
210	* CareerEndingInjury: [[spoiler:Fuji accidentally pushed her downstairs, causing her to break her leg and having to retire from the track team. She's naturally very bitter about it because he never came to see her or apologized]].
211	* CuteLittleFangs: Has one.
212	* CuteSportsClubManager: Decides to sign up as manager for the baseball club to get close to Goro, even though she doesn't know the sport at first.
213	* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:Eventually with Fuji]].
214	* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Shares the same first name with [[spoiler:Toshiya's younger sister]].
215	* SmittenTeenageGirl
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218	[[folder: Introduced in Season 4]]
219	!Ginuma/Hayato Yaginuma
220	->'''Voiced by:'''Creator/KenichiSuzumura
221	* AffectionateNickname: Goro calls him "Ginumacchi".
222	* GameBreakingInjury: Failed the tryouts for the Major Leagues due to a knee injury resurfacing. Nevertheless, Goro convinces him to keep playing baseball when he returns to Japan once he recovers.
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224	!Fox
225	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KentaMiyake
226	* NiceGuy
227	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Arguably for Toshi, due to their shared position (catcher) and status as a NiceGuy. Somewhat Justified, since Toshi didn't go with Goro when the latter went to the US.
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229	!Sanders
230	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KojiIshii
231	* CoolOldGuy
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233	!Alice Jinnai
234	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AtsukoEnomoto
235	* GenkiGirl
236	* PomPomGirl
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238	!Joe Gibson Jr.
239	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaisukeNamikawa (older), Creator/AkikoKimura (young)
240	* TheAce
241	* BrokenAce: For all his talent, he doesn't play baseball because he enjoys it, and continues to drag the pain of losing his family.
242	* FreudianExcuse: He's a {{Jerkass}} to Goro at first since his dad started to neglect his family in order to atone for [[spoiler:killing Shigeharu Honda]].
243	* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Has one when he tries to taunt Goro about having "his father's murderer" watching him play. He's quite shocked when [[ArmorPiercingResponse Goro replies that he'd long forgiven Gibson Sr. for that]], and he's not playing for revenge, unlike Junior]].
244	* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Has this feeling towards his father, and his initial antagonism with Goro is rooted on the fact that he knows the latter wants to challenge Gibson Sr. in the Majors.
245	* ShadowArchetype: He comes across as one to Goro. Both are very talented players, though Goro is mainly a pitcher, while Junior is a home run hitter. Both play baseball for opposite reasons: Goro because he enjoys the sport and wants to follow his father's footsteps, while Junior plays it because he wants to destroy his father, whom he hates. [[spoiler:While Goro has all the reasons to hate Joe Gibson Sr. for killing his biological father, he makes it clear that he holds no ill will at him, unlike Junior who still in adulthood blames his father (and both Hondas) for his family being broken]].
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247	!Jeff Keane
248	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa
249	* TheAce
250	* OhCrap: If something that goes against his statistics/predictions comes up, he will more likely than not have this reaction.
251	* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:He originally was a catcher who was rather idealistic, not unlike Goro. However, one time he decided to believe in a pitcher, which cost his team the game and got them eliminated from a tournament]]. While it doesn't cause him to become a full-blown villain (early on, he's a TokenEvilTeammate at worst), it ''does'' make him start on the wrong foot with Goro.
252	* TheStoic
253	* TheStrategist: Reason why he [[spoiler: takes Sanders place as catcher]].
254	* WellIntentionedExtremist: He ''does'' genuinely care about playing the game. It's just that his focus on using stats to win is a bit too extreme if you don't share the same mindset.
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258	[[folder: Introduced in Season 5]]
259	!Waka Onodera[[spoiler:/Miho Sato]]
260	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MamikoNoto
261	* OneSteveLimit: [[spoiler:Shares her first name with Miho Nakamura]].
262	* [[spoiler: [[LukeIAmYourFather Toshi I am your sister]]]]
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265	!Silva
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269
270	[[folder: Introduced in Season 6]]
271	!Richard Watts
272	* TheHeart: He's a bit blunt about it, but he does his best to keep the team together.
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274	!Billy Oliver
275	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RikiyaKoyama
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277	!Mike Murdoch
278	->'''Voiced by:''' Jin Yamanoi
279	* FreudianExcuse: He was once framed by two players who hid a pack of drugs in his locker, and [[CassandraTruth nobody believed him when he defended his innocence]]. Even after he was cleared, he refused to trust his teammates ever again because he felt nobody would trust him.
280	* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Upon seeing Goro actually giving him advice and having faith in him, he realizes that the problem isn't that he wasn't being accepted by his teammates, but rather, ''he'' wasn't accepting them]].
281	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite often getting into fights with other players, he's shown to be a loving husband and father.
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285	[[folder: Introduced in World Series]]
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