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The story of Chuo-ku baseball

A monument to the birthplace of Japanese baseball is located at the Bachelor's Hall in Kanda Nishikicho, Chiyoda-ku.

In 1872 (Meiji 5), American teacher Holes Wilson taught students baseball here.

This area was also the place where Kaisei School, the predecessor of the University of Tokyo, was built, and the following year a new school building and a playground were created, and it became a place where games could be played.

2022 was the 150th anniversary of the introduction of baseball.

 

This year's baseball world has had a lot of impressive things.

The leading player in the first half of professional baseball is Akiki Sasaki of Chiba Lotte Marines.

You may never have such a perfect match.

His success stimulated, and Yudai Ono, who had been a complete game until the extra match, and four other pitchers achieved no hit no run.

The second half is the performance of Munetaka Murakami of Yakult Swallows.

He was 56 home runs in an unprecedented five-seat continuous home run and a triple crown at the age of 22.

ORIX Buffaloes won the reverse championship in the final match of the league.

In 1988, Kintetsu Buffaloes, who missed the championship in the legendary final match, is the predecessor team of ORIX.

As it was, strong pitchers won a tense close battle and became the best in Japan.

In high school baseball, Sendai Ikuei High School stood at the top, and for the first time the victory flag crossed the Tohoku region.

Koji Ota, Dalbish, Yusei Kikuchi or Terusei Yoshida won the championship that could not be achieved.

On the other side of the sea, Shohei Otani is active.

As a pitcher, he exceeded the specified number of pitches, and as a batter, achieving the specified batting is the first feat of modern baseball.

The two-digit home run and the two-digit victory are the biggest record since Beve Roose in 1918.

 

 The story of Chuo-ku baseball

It was in 1934 (Showa 9) that Babe Ruth came to Japan.

The Yomiuri Shimbun invited a selection team from the Major League, and during his haircut, Sotaro Suzuki suddenly went to talk and showed a poster depicting a large portrait of Ruth's portrait during his haircut, and as a result, I will laugh and accept it.

Ruth says later that Ginza Street was filled with people at the welcome parade of the national selection team after coming to Japan, and it was more than the championship parade in the World Series.

The members of the U.S. national team are Beve Roose, the last season of Yankees.

Rou Gerig, the triple crown prince who was called Iron Horse in consecutive games, Jimmy Fox, the home run king three times, Charles Geringer, who has excellent defense who became the leading batter in a beautiful swing, and the pitcher triple crown It is a team of 16 people including Lefty Gometz who won twice.

There is one unnamed catcher in it.

The name is Maurice Berg  

About 30 waiting players a year are the best, working for only 3 hours a day, traveling around the country, staying at a good hotel, meeting wonderful people, and saying that they want to remain in such a good occupation where they can get a salary. Is the person who speaks. In Japan, he was a player who came back and forth in one army and two armys.

However, it is said that he spoke more than a dozen languages with a reputation for being terrible.

I've been to a coach in Japan before, so I was able to write katakana in the second visit to Japan and have a normal conversation.

Of the 16 games played, there are records of participation in the first match of Jingu and the Sendai and Toyama.

Other than that, what was he doing?

He was a spy.

We climb up the cross spire of St. Luke's, one of the tallest buildings in Tokyo, and take pictures of Tokyo.

It is said that he played a decisive role in the air raids in Tokyo. Is that really true?

Based on what his relatives left behind, he wrote a book titled "The Great Leaguer was a Spy."

There was a direction in which he, who had a secret mission, heard that he was a spy after the war.

Americans also cooperated in the reconstruction after the Great Kanto Earthquake, and the cityscape and materials at that time have been obtained. It is also said that a sergeant working at the embassy had been in Japan for seven years and made a bomb plan based on information about the sergeant.

It was a mysterious life.

 The story of Chuo-ku baseball

The opponents of the U.S. national selection team were organized mainly by members of society because they were told that when they went mainly to students two years ago, they were told that they would take a fee.

This is the pioneer of the professional baseball team that will be formed the following year.

It was Victor Sardhin and Eiji Sawamura who dropped out of high school and joined the team.

The 16 games played were greatly different, but the only close match was the match at Shizuoka Kusanagi Stadium.

Eiji Sawamura hit the Geringer Roose Gerig Fox in a row, and played a good match.

In the end, he lost 0-1 by Gerig's solo home run.

 

Eiji Sawamura, the ace of the giant army, will pitch against Osaka Tigers in the first throne decision match of occupational baseball that began in 1936.

The place where the game was played is Suzaki Stadium, which was currently around Toyo-cho, Koto-ku.

The Giants gathered at the time of the game in Suzaki at Ryokan Hoteiya located east of Gofuku Bridge in Nihonbashi.

Many single players are dormitories, and Sawamura is one of them.

He finishes the first round and wins, but one of Sawamura's giants can compete against the Tigers with a strong batting line will throw Sawamura in a row.

On the night of losing and losing one win, Sawamura suffers from the tiredness of the consecutive battles since autumn and pain in arms.

The landlady of the Hoteiya runs people to Hatchobori and asks for horse meat.

All night, Sotaro Suzuki wrote that he replaced a wide range of horse meat fillet and applied it to his right shoulder.

As a result, Sawamura achieved his first year victory in a three-day run by the Giants.

 The story of Chuo-ku baseball

The commemorative photo provided by the Yomiuri Shimbun Tokyo Head Office on the monument of the Suzaki Stadium above has been expanded.

Eiji Sawamura is the pitcher who has the championship flag in the back row.

I'm 19 years old at this time.

On the eve of the first match, Sawamura, who sleeps in the hoya east of Gofuku Bridge, is nervous and can not sleep and wakes up in the dark and goes for a walk.

When I walk, I find a big shrine and pray to cling.

He returned to the house and said with a smile that he was okay because he had prayed to everyone for victory.

Some people seemed to realize that it was a Suitengu, but he was concerned about the tension of Sawamura and recalls that no one could say that he was the god of safe delivery.

 The story of Chuo-ku baseball

The Suitengu encourages the spirits so that the Arima family of Kurume can visit even when they are in Edo in sankin kotai, and relocated to their current location in 1872.

Many people throw money through the fence to the Suitengu Shrine enshrined in the mansion, so we open the gate of the mansion on the 5th of every month to allow worship.

"Amari Arima's Suitengu" is a buzzword.

It is not the second floor as it is now when Eiji Sawamura visited.

The 15th head of the Arima family is Yoriyasu Arima.

He is also an Earl, a member of the House of Lords and the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry.

The president of the Japan Racing Association also runs, and the GI race is still held as Arima Memorial.

In 1936, he was involved in the formation of the Tokyo Senateas Professional Baseball Team.

SENATOR is a Senator. In Japan at that time, it was a member of the House of Lords.

A person born in Chuo-ku became the owner of professional baseball.

The management base is the former Seibu Railway, and a dedicated stadium will be built on Ueikusa in Suginami.

Star players were Koshien's champion pitcher Jiro Noguchi at Naka Kyosho and Kutoku Kanda's second baseman, who was called a master.

 The story of Chuo-ku baseball

Shigeru Chiba is the player who is said to be the master of Kutoku Kanda and the best second baseman.

He won the Koshien championship in Matsuyama Commercial and joined the Tokyo Giants Army in 1938.

It is later called the flower 13-year group in synchronization with Tetsuharu Kawakami and Masaki Yoshihara's Kumamoto Industrial Battery.

It appears in his memoir that Shigeru Chiba first met Kawakami at the hoya east of Gofuku Bridge, where new players gathered.

Kawakami seemed to be stupid to be a kindergarten child because his father accompanied Shigeru Chiba's apology, which was accidentally double contract.

They are big stars who beat them as rivals and divided the popularity of giants throughout the pre-war and post-war period.

A person who does not care for the eyes because he is a big star but does not care for the eyes, or wears high-grade leather shoes with heels, protrudes a stylish shirt, and is a powerful but gentle person and my acquaintance testimony.

I often came to the shop where I worked for an acquaintance to shop, and my acquaintance worked for Shigeru Chiba's customer service for nearly 10 years.

Ginza Switzerland is the shop where Shigeru Chiba went to dinner.

 The story of Chuo-ku baseball

Both cutlet rice and curry rice are good, but Shigeru Chiba, who wants to eat gully, orders curry rice to ride a cutlet.

Adding a full-volume cutlet curry to the menu will become a popular menu and spread throughout the country.

Ginza Switzerland is the birthplace of cutlet curry.

Now, lime ciders using lime from Matsuyama, the hometown of Chiba, have a reputation for matching curry.

When I was in elementary school, I remember being impressed by eating cutlet curry for the first time in the cafeteria of a department store.

Shigeru Chiba is the person who invented his favorite food and gave him a uniform number 3 to his favorite Shigeo Nagashima.

Shigeru Chiba left the Giants and assumed the position of Kintetsu coach.

The nickname of Kintetsu at that time was Pearls after the pearls of Ise-Shima along the Kintetsu line, but with the appointment of Shigeru Chiba, the team name was changed to Kintetsu Buffalo from the nickname Takeshi of the active era of Chiba .

 

ORIX Buffaloes, who succeeded this trend, became the best in Japan this year, and this blog is complete.