JAPANESE BASEBALL HERO NAGASHIMA, FORMER YOMIURI MANAGER, TO THE SKY

Japanese "Mr. Professional Baseball" Giants lifetime honorary coach Shigeo Nagashima died of pneumonia at a hospital in Tokyo on the 3rd. He was 89. The deceased, who made his Japanese professional baseball debut in 1958, alternately played four times with Taiwanese home run king Sadaharu Oh, and led the heyday of Yomiuri by forming an "ON four"