Tsunetaro Moriyama | |
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Pitcher | |
Born: Tokyo, Japan | April 29, 1880|
Died: February 12, 1912 | (aged 31)|
Threw: Left | |
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Member of the Japanese | |
Baseball Hall of Fame | |
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 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]