was a Japanese professional baseball player.Hiroshi Arakawa Japanese Leagues Statistics & History
/ref> From 1953 to 1961, he played in the

Pacific League The or is one of the two professional baseball leagues constituting Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan. The winner of the league championship competes against the winner in the Central League for the annual Japan Series. It currently cons ...

as an outfielder for the Mainichi Orions (later renamed the Daimai Orions), batting .251 with 503 hits, 16 home runs and 172 RBIs. After retiring as a player, he was a batting coach for the

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and, later, a manager of the

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in the early 1970s.Oh mentor Arakawa dies at 86
/ref> Arakawa died on December 4, 2016, after suffering a cardiac arrest.

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