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Father of Baseball in Japan
He contributed to development and spread of baseball in japan
Baseball was introduced to Japan in 1872 and is Japan's most popular participatory and spectator sport. The first professional competitions emerged in the 1920s. The highest level of baseball in Japan is Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), which ...
, because he believed that personality was built with sports, like knowledge built with learning. Becoming the first manager of Waseda Baseball Club in 1901, he started Waseda–Keio rivalry. In 1905, during Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War ( ja, 日露戦争, Nichiro sensō, Japanese-Russian War; russian: Ру́сско-япóнская войнá, Rússko-yapónskaya voyná) was fought between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1 ...
, he took the team to the United States, and brought many techniques to Japan. He didn't keep the techniques secret, but spread them all over Japan with his books. He also established the Japan Amateur Sports Association(later Japan Sport Association) together with Jigoro Kano. Besides, he helped organizing of the first Olympic team of Japan competing at the Stockholm Olympic games in 1912. In 1930, he became the first chairman of Tokyo Big6 Baseball League
is an intercollegiate baseball league that features six prominent universities in the Tokyo area. Before the 1936 establishment of the Japanese Baseball League and subsequent growth (after 1950) of Nippon Professional Baseball, the Big6 League ...
. After WWII he also became the first chairman of .
He is called 'Father of Baseball in Japan' or 'Father of Student Baseball' in Japan because of such contribution. Totsuka Ground, the main stadium of Waseda's baseball team, was changed its name to Abe Ground when he died in 1949. When Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
The is a museum which includes a library, reference rooms and .
It first opened in 1959 next door to Korakuen Stadium in Tokyo, Japan. In 1988, the museum moved to a new site within the Tokyo Dome.
The Hall of Fame and Museum was created as a ...
was opened in 1959, he was inducted into the hall.
See also
* Shinkigen was a socialist monthly magazine, published in Tokyo, Japan, between November 1905 and November 1906.Shin kigen = New era : a monthly socialist review'
History and profile
''Shinkigen'' emerged after the October 1905 split in the '' Heiminsha''. T ...
References
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1865 births
1949 deaths
Doshisha University alumni
Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame inductees
Japanese Christian pacifists
Japanese Christian socialists
Japanese Protestants
Japanese socialist feminists
Members of the House of Representatives (Empire of Japan)
Non-interventionism
People from Fukuoka
Politicians from Fukuoka Prefecture
Unitarian socialists
Waseda University faculty
Meiji socialists