Japanese baseball hero Nagashima, former Yomiuri manager, to the sky

Japanese baseball hero Nagashima, former Yomiuri manager, to the sky

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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" of fear.메이저놀이터

During the 17 seasons, he was the batting champion six times with a batting average of 0.305, 444 homers and 1,522 RBIs, and immediately after his retirement as coach of the Yomiuri Giants, he won five Central League titles and two Japan Series titles, before retiring in 2001. A former coach of the Japanese national team, he suffered a stroke in 2004 and left the baseball community.

Yomiuri, Japan's most prestigious baseball team, puts so much meaning on the fourth batter that it manages the list separately, with the deceased in the 25th and Sadaharu Oh in the 28th, and former Doosan Bears coach Lee Seung-yeop, who wore a Yomiuri uniform in 2006, was a 70-4 hitter.

Having established himself as a national hero by dominating the baseball world in the 1960s and 1970s during Japan's high economic growth period, the deceased received the Japanese National Honor Award in 2013 with Hideki Matsui, a former 62-4 hitter of the Yomiuri Giants and an active player with the New York Yankees of the U.S. Major League Baseball, and served as a torchbearer along with Sadaharu Oh and Matsui at the opening ceremony of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. In 2021, he was the first professional baseball player to receive the Japanese Order of Cultural Merit.

Meanwhile, Shohei Ohtani (Los Angeles Dodgers) paid tribute to the deceased by posting a photo taken together during the MLB Tokyo Series in March on his social media (SNS).