Nomura's "whispering tactics" to hunt the opponent February 11 15:18

When Nomura was an active catcher, the so-called "whispering tactics" was famous for his strategy of trying to hunt down the opposing team.

Mr. Nomura whispered various things from technical aspects to private things as a `` lonely word '' through a mask to disturb the batter's concentration when the match is at the opponent's pace, using this whispering tactic as a trick Was.

At that time, Isamu Harimoto, who was competing for the hit title of Pa League with Nomura as Toei's main axis at the time, once said in an NHK interview, "Mr. Nomura missed the ball or fouled, and after a whisper, Or "The bat is down." "If you don't tell me anything," he said, "I'm just saying myself."

He then recalled, "Battery has had a lot of trouble with thinking about various things."

In addition, Nomura said, `` It was conscious of this whisper, and it was at this pace when I put on my earplugs, '' said that some players stood in bat with earplugs trying to seal whispering tactics. And so on.

On the other hand, Mr. Nomura cited giants Sadaharu Wang and Shigeo Nagashima who played in Japan series and all-star games as opponents of whispering tactics in his book.

Regarding Mr. Wang, "Speaking because people are good will reply, but if you have a pitcher, you will concentrate on that."

Regarding Mr. Nagashima, "I'm just talking about this, I'm not talking at all, and I'm irritated by myself whispering back like" What is this pitcher, Nom, is it fast? " It happened, "he said.

Nomura enjoyed professional baseball fans in these episodes on the ground.

Yutaka Fukumoto "I was taken along with that word"

Yutaka Fukumoto, who coached Nomura Katsuya during Hanshin's supervision, responded to the interview in Miyazaki, saying, "I was amazed that he died and was amazed at" Usoya. I wanted to hear more from Nomura's vocabulary. I was looking at various places with my eyes and thought that it was different from myself. "

Fukumoto, who has a record of 1065 stolen bases in the history of professional baseball, described Nomura as a catcher, saying, "I run so often that I made it a quick pitcher so that I couldn't move. I have made it a high runner. "

When Mr. Nomura was an active catcher, the famous `` whispering tactics '' as an operation that tried to hunt the opponent team remained in the impression, `` When I thought to stand and get ready to concentrate on I said a word that distracts me, and there was a lot that I was told by that word. "