Warren Cromartie

Warren Cromartie arrived in Japan already having lived one full baseball life. Born in Florida in 1953, he came up with the Montreal Expos in the late seventies alongside Andre Dawson and Ellis Valentine, an outfield trio that had the sport paying attention. What makes him memorable to me is the second act. Foreign players in Japan are often treated as temporary hired help — respected for their numbers, kept at arm's length from the culture of the team. Cromartie refused that arrangement. With the Yomiuri Giants he was not merely productive but genuinely beloved, an outsized, visibly delighted personality on a field where restraint was the default. He changed the temperature of the ballpark. He also never let the connection lapse; decades later he remains publicly engaged with Japanese baseball. Plenty of imports put up better single seasons. Very few are remembered as belonging. Cromartie managed that, and it was clearly not an accident.

Name (English)

Warren Cromartie

Name (Japanese)

ウォーレン・クロマティ

Reading

うぉーれん・くろまてぃ

Born

September 29, 1953 (age 72)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Snake

Origin

Florida, United States

Height

183 cm

Occupation

baseball player

High school

Miami Jackson High School

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren%20Cromartie
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E3%83%9E%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7970152

Tags

• Florida
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-08-07

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