Tohto University Baseball, which has produced many professional baseball players, has been holding games locally since this spring league match in order to expand the competition population, and for the autumn league match, in Fukushima Prefecture. Announced that it will be held.
Tohto University Baseball, which is made at a university in Tokyo, is called "the eastern capital of ability". In addition to Kiyoshi Nakahata, who was born in Fukushima and joined the giant from Komazawa University, he joined Orix from Aoyama Gakuin University for the second consecutive year. We have produced many professional baseball players, such as Masataka Yoshida, who won the top hitter in Tokyo.
The Tohto University Baseball League, which runs the league, held a press conference in Tokyo on the 27th and announced that it will hold the opening card for this autumn league match in Fukushima Prefecture.
The federation is holding a regional event in Oita Prefecture for the first time in this spring league match in an attempt to expand the competition population. In Fukushima Prefecture, the prefectural Azuma Stadium in Fukushima City, which was used at the Tokyo Olympics last year, was held. It means that we decided to hold it because it can be used.
The opening card will be played 3 games at the prefectural Azuma Stadium on September 3rd and 3 games at York Kaiseizan Stadium in Koriyama City on the 4th.
Governor Masao Uchibori of Fukushima Prefecture said, "The Olympics were incompletely burned with no spectators, so I want the locals to watch the incandescent match."
Mikiya Tanaka, the captain of Asia University who won the spring league match, was enthusiastic about "I want to liven up Fukushima and the baseball world."
What is Tohto University Baseball?
According to the Tohto University Baseball Federation, the predecessor Five University Baseball Federation was established in 1958, and the league match began.
I started to use Jingu Baseball Stadium from the beginning.
Then, in 1945, it became the Tohto University Baseball League, and 22 universities in Tokyo joined the league, and the league games are divided into 1st to 4th divisions.
Except for the season when the influence of the new coronavirus came out, when the league match is over, the lowest rank of each division and the top university of the lower division will play a qualification match, and the competition for ranking is fierce. It is known by the name of ".
Hiroki Kuroda, who has produced many players in professional baseball and played in Hiroshima and the major leagues and achieved 200 wins in Japan and the United States, and Nakahata from Fukushima who was active in the giant and also served as the director at DeNA. There are Kiyoshi and others.
In addition, there are many leaders such as Yakult coach Shingo Takatsu and Lotte coach Tadahito Iguchi who led the team to the top in Japan last season.
In addition, among the active players, Masataka Yoshida and Yasuaki Yamasaki of Orix, who have been the top hitters for the second consecutive year, and Hirokazu Sawamura of the Major League Baseball and Red Sox are from the Tohto League.