Tsunetaro Moriyama | |
Position: | Pitcher |
Throws: | Left |
Birth Date: | 29 April 1880 |
Birth Place: | Tokyo, Japan |
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Hoflink: | Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame |
Hoftype: | Japanese |
Hofdate: | 1966 |
was a Japanese baseball player.
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.