Nippon Professional Baseball players like the Lee brothers, Leron Lee and Leon Lee, Greg "Boomer" Wells, Randy Bass, and Ralph Bryant playing key roles on their NPB teams. In 1995, star pitcher Hideo Nomo "retired" from the Kintetsu Buffaloes and signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Nomo pitched over the span of 14 seasons in the Major Leagues before retiring in 2008. He won the Rookie of the Year Award in 1995. He twice led the league in strikeouts, and also threw two no-hitters (the only Japanese pitcher to throw a no-hitter in Major League Baseball until Hisashi Iwakuma achieved the feat in
First Flight Baseball Complex First Flight Baseball Complex The First Flight Baseball Complex is a baseball venue in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina at First Flight High School. It is the home of the Outer Banks Daredevils of the Tidewater Summer League, a collegiate summer baseball league. The team, which was founded for the 1997 season, began playing at the field in the 2006 season. Prior to this, the Daredevils had played at Coy Tillett Memorial Field in Manteo, North Carolina. The field street address is 111 Veterans Drive, Kill Devils Hills, North Carolina. The field's dimensions are 355 ft. down the foul lines,