Tsunetaro Moriyama
| Tsunetaro Moriyama | |||
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Born: April 29, 1880 Tokyo, Japan | |||
| Died: February 12, 1912 (aged 31) | |||
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| Member of the Japanese | |||
 Baseball Hall of Fame | |||
| Inducted | 1966 | ||
Tsunetaro Moriyama (守山 恒太郎 Moriyama Tsunetarō, 27 April 1880 – 12 February 1912) was a Japanese baseball player.
Career
Born in Tokyo, he was a southpaw pitcher for the First Higher School of Japan (Ikkō).[1] He was famous for his hard training which enabled Ikkō to defeat the Yokohama Country & Athletic Club (YC&AC), the strongest team in Japan baseball during the late 1800s, after first losing to them.[1][2] He later studied medicine at Tokyo 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 the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966.[2]
References
- 1 2 3 "Moriyama Tsunetarō". Asahi Nihon Rekishi Jinbutsu Jiten (in Japanese). Asahi Shinbun. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
- 1 2 "Moriyama Tsunetaro". The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
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