was a professional Japanese

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...

player, coach, and manager. He was elected to the

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 ...

in 2003.

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1937 births 2017 deaths Baseball people from Tokushima Prefecture Japanese baseball players Nippon Professional Baseball catchers Hiroshima Carp players Managers of baseball teams in Japan Orix Buffaloes managers Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters managers Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame inductees {{Japan-baseball-infielder-stub