Gary Thomasson was signed by the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants in 1980. The player was 30 years old and in top form, but his salary was, by far, the highest from the entire Japanese league.
Katsuhiko Akasegawa called the impossible configurations he found scattered around the city 'thomasson', turned them into art and dedicated a magazine to them. He says that the player's career in Tokyo was more than disappointing: he spent almost the entire season on the bench until he injured his knee and abandoned baseball. Logomically, he called them'sensory artifacts' that were just a memory of when they were useful, so he made sense of them and called them hyperart, Logomatically, he said, so he called them thomassons, after the baseball player who had cost so much money and earned so much fans; well, not all fans; Genpei Akasesgawa had just made a sense of his.