The story of the story of baseball.①
I went to the Baseball Hall of Fame Museum in May. The 2023 WBC winning medal was on display.
When I went to take a picture again in June, the WBC winning trophy was on display.
The pitchers who were united by Dalbish were the best pitch in the world without complaining. Kensuke Kondo was pulled by a nut bar and connected, and the batting line following Shohei Otani, Masanao Yoshida, Munetaka Murakami, and Kazuma Okamoto showed an incomparable attack to major leaguers. Director Hideki Kuriyama, who played Soryo Genda and turned the pitcher relay well, jumped out great pressure. I don't think it worked 100% better from the selection of members to the maintenance of conditions, but I think it's amazing to have the power to believe. Of course, it was Shohei Otani who continued to take the lead in the team.
The players quickly joined each team and started their career. Shohei Otani has been playing well, and the other day as a pitcher, he has over 500 strikes in the major leagues, and those who have more than 100 home runs and both records have been talked about since Babbles.
I read Robert K. Fitz's "Babbles the Eve of the World War" I would like to add a supplement to the previous "Chuo-ku Baseball Story".
This is a poster for Japan-US baseball in 1934 on display at the Baseball Hall of Fame. In his later years as a player, Babbles claimed that he would eventually become a manager during the off-season of this year, but was angry with Yankees owners rejected him. I refuse to go to Japan for reasons that I don't like long sailings. Sotaro Suzuki, who was in charge of the contact point in the United States, couldn't make an appointment and argues while loose haircuts. Sotaro, who was in trouble with roux who continued to refuse no matter how much he showed his contract to Japan, took this poster from his bag and said, "Every Japanese are waiting for you," and stared at the picture suddenly with a laugh and said, "OK! OK! I'm going to Japan."
The national selection team, who got off at Tokyo Station by train from Yokohama, will parade through Ginza from Marunouchi. Roose rides in the open car at the top. The ticket gate from the platform of Tokyo Station is also a great person. There were no internet or information programs, so many people gathered here. From around the corner of the Kyobashi intersection, the crowd will rush and the car will not proceed. Excited Roose waving the flag of the star and the flag of the Hinomaru to answer the cheer. It seems that it took more than an hour from Ginza Matsuya to Ginza Mitsukoshi. "I shook hands with thousands of people, shouting Banzai. Ginza is more amazing than the New York Parade when we won the World Series," Ruth recalls.
After having breakfast at the Imperial Hotel where I stayed in the morning of the first round of the national selection team in Japan, I headed to Ginza Matsuya at 10 o'clock. Therefore, they serve treats and beers that the party expresses like a mountain. At 11 o'clock, I was taken to Nihonbashi Takashimaya, where a baseball sale was held, and served sandwiches, fruits, sweets and beer at the cafeteria. Takashimaya presented a ticket for the game to shoppers over three yen. On this day, the first 3,000 people were given a bibleose promide. This card is a rare card that has not been confirmed to exist. And at 13:00, we will play the game at Jingu Stadium. You must have been full.
The national selection team played a strong service spirit across the country while showing differences in ability. The game in Kokura in Kyushu was heavy rain, but the audience who wanted to watch the game by all means will work together to maintain the ground and start with light rain. Gerig wore boots and guarded the outfield, and Ruth wore an umbrella to reach the first base defense. This stadium is a deformed ground with a left of 85m and a light of 125m. Roose, who stood in the bat seven times, pointed to the light stand, gave a notice of the home run, and hit the out-of-the-field home run. It must have been fun.
It is the spire of the former St. Luke Hospital, where the very awkward daughter and son were born.
I spoke about the spy in a good story. For members of the U.S. national selection team who came to Japan, a lifetime batter. It contained 238 catcher Maurice Berg. This is a forced-scheduled team that also has 18 official US games and friendly games from Hokkaido to Kyushu. Why was Bergh just before retirement, even though only two injured catchers were injured? Bergh came to Japan two years ago for student guidance at the invitation of the All Japan University Baseball Federation. It's true that the experience was bought. Some say that Bergh entered the CIA's predecessor OSS (Strategic Information Bureau) a few years after returning to Japan, but even Babbles took a risk in situations where shooting with cameras was restricted and took a picture of Hakodate's security, so it seems that the theory that he was ordered to take the first spy activity on this visit to Japan and joined the member seems to be correct.
It is Bergh's daily routine to read several newspapers every day. I find an article that the daughter of the Ambassador to Japan gave birth at St. Luke Hospital. At the departure of the game in Omiya, Bergh gently leaves the team. He left testimony that he walked from the Imperial Hotel to Ginza, Kabukiza, Tsukiji and Honganji. When he came to give birth, he passed through the reception, got off the elevator on the 5th floor of the hospital, confirmed that there was no one, climbed to the 7th floor, and climbed inside the tower. This film is contained in 16mm film, including warships in Tokyo Bay, around the Imperial Palace, and weapons factories.
In 2018, Hiroyuki Sanada also appeared in the movie "The Catcher Waz A Spy" featuring Bergh as the main character.
This is a relief of Sotaro Suzuki on display at the Baseball Hall of Fame.
One day, Matsutaro Shoriki, who bought the poorly managed Yomiuri Shimbun, one day, an acquaintance of Hochi Shimbun Shigenori Ikeda comes to see the Yomiuri Shimbun headquarters in Ginza 1-chome. In a chat on the rooftop, I was told, "Would you like to call Babbles at Yomiuri?" It was said that it was too expensive to report. At that time, we were able to restructure our business. However, the circulation has been greatly delayed every day in the morning sun, and I intuitively feel that baseball invitations will be the trump card for Yomiuri's sales expansion. I will join Tadao Ichioka, the director of Waseda, as the director of the Sports Department, and look for other human resources who can negotiate in the United States. Sotaro Suzuki, the manager of the NY branch of a silk product trading company, was fascinated by the appeal of the major league, and posted an article in the Yokohama Trade Shimpo about the fun of the major league. Masanori will hire Sotaro, who returned home due to the bankruptcy of the company, as a major league-related reporter and special adviser. And we organized a national selection team including Ruth.
Professional baseball was formed in 1934 after Japan-US baseball. At that time, Dai Nippon Baseball Club, a vocational baseball team, was formed. The office is Sukiyabashi Kikuya Building, the Toei Kaikan in Ginza 3-chome now. Sotaro will be involved in the American expedition the following year as a manager. Frank Odor, who asked for a shorter name, asked, "What is the most popular major team in Japan?" And answered, "It's the New York Giants." You're the godmother.
In the last blog, I wrote about Japan's first decisive match held at Suzaki Stadium. A photo of Suzaki Stadium was also exhibited at the Baseball Hall of Fame Museum. Jingu Stadium was a time when only student baseball could be used, and there was no professional baseball stadium in Kanto. Secondly after Kamiikusa Stadium, the Great Tokyo Army, where Ryuji Suzuki was the managing director of the baseball team, built a 51-day project on the site of Tokyo Gas on the sea side of Koto-ku with only 51 days. It is when there is no idea of franchise yet, and it is the base stadium of the Great Tokyo Army, but it also uses the Tokyo Giant Army. Even during the game, at high tide, the ground was soaked in seawater and could not be used, and there were many cold games.
In 1936, Eiji Sawamura pitched three rows in Japan's best match at Suzaki Stadium. In the first round, Sawamura won the complete pitch, but there is a Tigers player who hit a home run from Sawamura in this game. The name is Masaru Kageura. He also started with this game pitcher and pitched completely. Before the war, it is not unusual for pitchers to go to defense on days when they do not throw, but Keiura was the pitcher with the best defense rate of this year, and the following year he was active as a pitcher and also won the lead batter and batter king . A baseball-loving father sent a heavy bat made of cherry trees to celebrate the celebration that he was transferred from the Kendo Club in Matsuyama Commercial, the son of a lumber shop, and it was a two-sword style of monsters trained by shaking it.
Gofuku Bridge Hoteiya was the meeting place of the Tokyo Giants when playing at Suzaki Stadium. I also wrote that it was the place where Tetsuharu Kawakami and Shigeru Chiba met for the first time in Sawamura during my single days. In Shigeru Chiba's "Bushi Ichidai no Oshi", it was written as Kurebashi, Nihonbashi District, and in Sotaro Suzuki's "Immortal Large Pitcher Eiji Sawamura", it was east of Gofuku Bridge. I couldn't easily identify the location, but when I looked at the Chuo-ku history map collection at the book forest Chuo, it was listed as Hoteiya on 2-4 on the map of 1935. This is around the photo above of Nihonbashi 2-chome today. I thought it was a place where my favorite Sawamura was sleeping, and the inside of my chest felt trembling.
NHK's close-up Hyundai broadcast that there was a video of baseball for about two minutes was found in 2015 and Sawamura pitched. Sawamura throws only one ball, but a professor at Chukyo University analyzed the image and estimated the pitching speed to be in the latter half of 150 km, close to Shohei Otani. At present, there are more than 160km of Japanese pitchers, such as Otani and Akiki Sasaki. However, the pitch speed of professional baseball pitchers in this era is considered to be around 130 km. Reftty Globe, who came to Japan in 1932, said Matsuchi Ana's "Throwed" on the radio. Oh, I can't see the ball" is famous and is called a smoke ball, but his pitching speed is estimated to be 160 km. And this video of Sawamura was shot in the second half of the third match of the best match in Japan at Suzaki Stadium. It is a three-way shooting video of the next day after throwing it up two days ago and enduring the pain of the shoulder. Sotaro wrote down the night before that he had been treated with horse meat all night at a hot house. In mid-December, it was a video of the second half of the game in the ice rain with a temperature of 2 degrees due to the blow of the sea breeze. The pitching form is also a video of throwing with a slipped like a quick motion, rather than throwing the left foot high by swinging it as usual. It must have been pitching only with energy while withstanding the pain of the shoulders.
The form that raises Sawamura's left foot high is the throwing method taught by Gizo Nagai, who was not a teacher at Meirin Elementary School but came to coach, to stabilize the sphere. There is a pitcher of Giants who was born in Mie Prefecture and became a relative because his cousin married Sawamura's younger brother. This is Minoru Nakamura, who became the 20th winner in 1965. When he was a baby, he was embraced by Sawamura, but he was seven years old at the end of the war, so he never taught baseball. However, he was told that Ujiyamada Shoko was coached by Gizo Nagai and raised his left foot to correct Sawamura's form. After retirement, I will teach Takashi Nishimoto, who became a coach of the Giants and had unstable forms and stagnant, to raise his left foot high. From time to time, Nishimoto, who raised his left foot and threw it, became an ace called Egawa. It's a good story, isn't it?
Chuo-ku Baseball Story