Baseball Hall of Fame and new candidates such as Atsuki Inaba announced next month December 3rd 17:54

A new candidate in the baseball hall that celebrates those who have made great achievements in the development of the baseball world, such as Mr. Atsuki Inaba, who was a Japanese national team coach and marked 2167 hits in his active days.

On the 3rd, new candidates for the Baseball Hall of Fame were announced next year, and four new players were added to the “Player Award” candidates for those who have been retired in professional baseball for more than five years.

Mr. Inaba marked 2167 hits with Yakult and Nippon Ham in his active days, and contributed to Japan's best in Japan in the 2006 Japan Series with MVP.

In addition, Mr. Makoto Kaneko, who served as the coach of the Japanese national team with Mr. Inaba, played for 21 years with Nippon Ham, and hit a total of 1627 hits.

For those who have experienced major leagues, Kintetsu's mainstay is 2106 hits in Japan and the United States.

Mr. Akinori Iwamura, who participated in the World Series at the Major Leagues Raise and played with Yakult and Rakuten in Japan, has joined 21 players for the “Player Award”.

In addition, the “Expert Award” for professional baseball coaches and coaches, who raised 165 wins, served as a coach in five teams such as Nippon Ham and Rakuten and raised many good pitchers such as Darvish pitchers. Mr. Yoshinori Sato.

Mitsuo Tatsukawa, former director of Hiroshima and who contributed to Japan as the head coach of Softbank.

Considering the track record as General Manager of DeNA, which was once served by Nippon Ham and former director of Yakult Shigeru Takada, who was once excluded from the candidate, he returned to 16 candidates.

In addition, as a candidate for a special award that recognizes people who have made a wide contribution to the development of baseball, such as amateur baseball and refereeing, a composition composed of a number of baseball cheer songs such as Hanshin's “Rokko Oroshi” and the giant “Fighting Spirit” Three people, including Mr. Yuji Koseki, from the house joined us.

Next year's baseball Hall of Fame announcement will be made on the 14th of next month.