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Bobby Valentine Featured In Manga
Date: 11/1/2005
It's been announced that the story of former MLB player and current Japanese team manager Robert Valentine will be portrayed in a new manga. Valentine heads the Chiba Lotte Marines led the team to to a second-place finish in 1995. The baseball veteran will be featured in Yamada Rejii's Zetsubou Ni Kiku Ku Suri (One On One), serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Young Sunday. The manga is known for including various famous people within it's storyline in an interview style setting and has featured such well known names as Yoko Onno and Osamu Tezuka in the past. The official serial website is here. On a side note, Bobby Valentine told Yahoo News he was happy managing in Japan according to an October 22nd article.
Source: Anime News Service