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Tetsuji Kawakami of the former Yomiuri Giants, who was called the "god of batting" from the batting technique, won the leading hitter at the youth of 19 years old passed away due to senility. He was 93 years old.

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Mr. Kawakami is from Kumamoto Prefecture. I belonged to the baseball club of Kumamoto Prefectural Industrial School as a pitcher and experienced second place in the summer Koshien (National Secondary School Baseball Tournament). After graduation, I joined Tokyo Giants (present · Yomiuri Giants) in 1938.

Initially it was also a team situation and concurrently served as a pitcher and a fielder, but in 1939 he got the top batting hitter at the age of 19. From 1942 onwards, he devoted himself to the fielder, had 7,500 batting 2351 hits in his 20-year lifestyle, and batting average batting average of 313. He was called "God of blow" from his shooting technique.

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After retiring from active duty in 1958, he served as the director of the giants since 1961 and has won eleven times in the director's life of 14 years. In particular, from 1965 to 1973, in addition to two superstars, Ogata Sadaharu and Shigeo Nagashima, other well-known pitchers such as Shinichi Kaneda, Tsuneo Horiuchi, Kazuho Takahashi, Masahiko Mori (Mori)V9Achieved. In 1965 he served the Nankai Hawks coach for 23 yearsKazuto TsuruokaI am in baseball hall of fame with Mr..

Although ranking was second as well as 1974, there was also a flow to try to supervise Mr. Nagashima against the stone of the Kawakami regime and Mr. Nagashima, and retired as a director in this year. After that I mainly worked as baseball commentator / critic.

By the way, Kumamoto Prefectural Industrial School which is Mr. Kawakami's alma mater has been renamed as Kumamoto Industrial High School since then, it is known as a baseball powerhouse school. There is a theory that the ball children lost in Koshien now bring sand back from the act of Mr. Kawakami when he was defeated in the final in 1937.