Koichi Tabuchi Introduced to the Baseball Hall of Fame August 18, 19:55
The award ceremony was held for Koichi Tabuchi, who has hit a total of 474 home runs in professional baseball with Hanshin and Seibu, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Mr. Tabuchi marked 474 homeruns in 11th place as a catcher of strong hits in 11th place in history, and after retirement he served as director of SoftBank's predecessor Daiei, Hanshin, Rakuten and the Beijing Olympics representative from Japan. With the "Expert Awards" for those who have coached the best friend, Senichi Hoshino, who has died in college, and who has experience as a professional baseball coach, and who have been retired for 21 years or more. I entered the Baseball Hall of Fame.
On the 18th, a commendation ceremony was held at a hotel in Tokyo, and a commemorative relief replica was first presented to the Baseball Hall of Fame Museum.
Then, at the same time of Hosei University, a bouquet was presented by former Koji Yamamoto of Hiroshima.
73-year-old Mr. Tabuchi greeted, "Thanks to this honorable baseball life, it was a baseball life with mountains and valleys."
"I'm really pleased that Koji Yamamoto, Senichi Hoshino and I were inducted into the Hall of Fame, but I always feel that there was another good friend, Senichi Hoshino," said Hoshino. I was thinking about.