Director Mitsuo Maeda, who led Teikyo High School in Tokyo to the championship three times in the spring and summer at Koshien in high school baseball, retired only this summer.
Maeda is 72 years old from Chiba prefecture.
After graduating from Teikyo University, he became the director of Teikyo High School in 1972 and trained himself to become one of Tokyo's leading schools.
He won the national high school baseball championship in the summer of 1989 for the first time, and also won the Senbatsu tournament in 1992 and Koshien in the summer of 1995.
In addition, we have produced many professional baseball players such as professional baseball, Yasuaki Yamasaki of DeNA and Akira Nakamura of Softbank.
Ten years ago, in the summer of 2011, I was away from Koshien at the end, and at the National High School Baseball Championship in Tokyo this summer, I lost 2-4 to the high school attached to Nishogakusha University who participated in Koshien in the semifinals. It was the best four.
Director Maeda told NHK that he had retired from the coach only this summer. "It's been 50 years since I was 22 and I thought it was a milestone. The days were my life itself. Tomorrow I was thinking about the players every day to do this and to say this. I had a fulfilling day and day. " ..
In the future, I will support the baseball club as an honorary director.
OB Yakult Noboru Shimizu "I have no choice but to thank"
Regarding the retirement of Teikyo High School coach Mitsuo Maeda, OB professional baseball pitcher Noboru Shimizu of Yakult said, "Thank you very much for a long time. Thinking about it now, I learned baseball under a ridiculously great coach. I'm just grateful. I was told that the number 1 wasn't the best match in history, and I felt rebellious. I was always told during the match that the game was a moment, so the flow and atmosphere of the match. I feel that I am still in the match. "