Tsunetaro Moriyama Explained

Tsunetaro Moriyama
Position:Pitcher
Throws:Left
Birth Date:29 April 1880
Birth Place:Tokyo, Japan
Teams:
  • First Higher School
Hoflink:Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
Hoftype:Japanese
Hofdate:1966

was a Japanese baseball player.

Career

Born in Tokyo, he was a southpaw pitcher for the First Higher School (Ikkō).[1] He was famous for his hard training which enabled Ikkō to defeat the Yokohama Country & Athletic Club (YC&AC), the strongest team in Japan baseball during the late 1800s, after first losing to them.[2] He later studied medicine at Tokyo Imperial University and became a military doctor, but died when he was infected by the infectious disease he was studying.

He was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Moriyama Tsunetarō. Asahi Nihon Rekishi Jinbutsu Jiten. Asahi Shinbun. 18 November 2013. Japanese.
  2. Web site: Moriyama Tsunetaro. The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. 18 November 2013.