Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: To baseball news now and Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels, who is the talk of this young baseball season. The 23-year-old Japanese phenom is winning as a pitcher and smashing home runs as a designated hitter. He has electrified fans and drawn comparisons to baseball's most famous so called two-way player Babe Ruth. NPR's Tom Goldman looks at whether Ohtani's success could lead to making the two-way player a more common sight in the game. TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE: In fact, it's quite common at lower levels of baseball. You can still go to any high school around the country and see players pitching one day, then playing a position and hitting the next. Although less common, you can find it in college, too. (SOUNDBITE OF BASEBALL CATCH) GOLDMAN: With a hiss and a pop, Kenyon Yovan delivers one of his 90-plus mile an hour fastballs. It's a practice day this week at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Yovan is a 20-year-old
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