Tsunetaro Moriyama | |
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Pitcher | |
Born:(1880-04-29)April 29, 1880 Tokyo,Japan | |
Died: February 12, 1912(1912-02-12) (aged 31) | |
Threw: Left | |
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Member of the Japanese | |
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Induction | 1966 |
Tsunetaro Moriyama (守山 恒太郎,Moriyama Tsunetarō, 27 April 1880 – 12 February 1912) was a Japanese baseball player.
Born in Tokyo, he was asouthpaw pitcher for theFirst Higher School (Ikkō).[1] He was famous for his hard training which enabled Ikkō to defeat theYokohama Country & Athletic Club (YC&AC), the strongest team inJapan baseball during the late 1800s, after first losing to them.[1][2] He later studied medicine atTokyo Imperial University and became a military doctor, but died when he was infected by the infectious disease he was studying.[1]
He was inducted into theJapanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966.[2]
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