Sho Nakata

Sho Nakata (中田 翔, Nakata Shō, born April 22, 1989 in Hiroshima) is a Japanese professional baseball player playing for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. He plays outfield and first base.

Early Baseball Career

As a high school student, he played as a pitcher for Osaka Toin High School and his fastball was clocket at 94 mph. In 2006, he took part in a National High School Baseball Championship, but he was defeated by his opponent Yuki Saito in his second game.

Nakata was a highly hyped prospect out of high school, hitting a total of 87 home runs, a Japanese record. On November 3, 2006, during a prefectural tournament game, the 17-year-old cracked a 550' homer out of the park then over a couple houses before landing across the street. That shattered the old record for the park, 425' by future NPB regular Osamu Hamanaka. The Minnesota Twins, New York Mets and Seattle Mariners all expressed interest, with Seattle offering $2.5 million. Nakata turned all of them down to play in Nippon Pro Baseball.

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Sho?

Sho? was a short-lived Dubai-based band, whose music could best be classified as a mixture of rock, alternative, punk and electronica. Made up of expatriates, they were active in the Dubai rock music scene for about eighteen months. They released one internet-only single, entitled Crash (April 2010) and one EP, entitled I Don't Wanna Go (August 2010). Their name was a version of the Arabic word, "Sho," which roughly translates into English as, "What." The band officially announced their dissollution in January 2011.

Biography

Sho? was formed in June 2009 by Zara Quiroga and Rizal Khan, who met via an online music forum. Eric Quay Evano (who later joined Borrison Ivy, then Moonshine), Fabrizio 'Fab' Benefazio, Justin Blincoe (who went on to join Colorado-based band Left Foot Green), Karim El Gamal and Branislav 'Bane' Trkulja also served brief stints in the band.

Principle band members

Zara Quiroga

Zara Quiroga was the lead vocalist and only female member of the band. Of Portuguese and Spanish descent, she undertook several years of vocal training prior to performing with Sho?. She had also previously appeared as a vocalist on the 2006 album release Project Creation - Dawn On Pyther by Portuguese multi-instrumentalist Hugo Flores.

Shō (given name)

Shō or Shou is a Japanese given name.

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