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This is a relief of Yoriyasu Arima, which has entered the Hall of Fame on display at the Baseball Hall of Fame Museum. Yorining, a grandson of Tomomi Iwakura and a member of the House of Lords, was a person named after the horse racing Arima memorial and the owner of the early professional baseball team Tokyo Senator (meaning aristocratic member). I wrote it. Probably the only one who was born in Chuo-ku and entered the Hall of Fame.

The first director of Tokyo Senators is Saburo Yokozawa. His brother Tsuguo Kobayashi will be the manager, and Saburo's younger brothers Shiro and Shichiro will later become players. I mentioned before that the team was popular mainly with stars of Kutoku Kanda and pitcher Jiro Noguchi who were called masters.

Jiro Noguchi is the ace of Chukyo Commercial and is the winner of Koshien in summer. The opponent of the final match is Kumamoto Kogyo of the battery of Kawakami and Yoshiwara. In the spring selection, he won the summer and spring championship with a record of winning four consecutive games including no hit no-run. At the age of 19, he joined the Tokyo Senators and won 33 wins. The following year, with 33 wins, the best defense rate with a defense rate of 0.93. In May of the fourth year, he won the win in a no-hit no-lan 9 times in the middle, starting the next day, and finishing 28 times in length. This year we won 40 wins, including 19 closed games. I'm throwing 527 times. There are few people throwing 200 times now. By the way, the pitcher who pitched over 500 innings was Yasuo Hayashi, who hit Noguchi's no-hit no-run in May with only one more pitcher. He also became a person who did not return on the battlefield in two years, and his name was engraved on the monument of the requiem.

Noguchi will participate in No. 4 even on the day when he does not pitch. After the war, he returned to Hankyu and played an active role as a pitcher, and as a batter hit 31 consecutive hits with the record at that time.

He is a great senior of great two-sword style. Angels can't easily win and Otani suffers, but Noguchi has no experience of winning 13 years in actual work after the war. Noguchi and Masaji Hiramatsu are the only pitchers who have won more than 200 wins and have never won. In addition, these two are the only 200 winners who have won Koshien. I want Masahiro Tanaka to do his best.

How did professional baseball begin to move immediately after the end of the war?

It is said that Hankyu was the first to move toward the return. Minoru Murakami, the representative of the Hankyu team, asks Hankyu Corporation Chairman Otagaki on the day of listening to Tamane Broadcasting, "What do you do with baseball?" Hankyu has Nishinomiya Stadium left, and has several dozens of hardballs, uniforms and few tools that are desperately hidden. It is momentum to contact Hanshin and Kinki Japan and form a league match only in Kansai.

The head office of the Yomiuri Shimbun in Ginza will be burned down by the Tokyo Air Raid on May 25. I built a temporary office in Tsukiji Honganji and published a newspaper. Sotaro visits Tsukiji Honganji's right-handness and talks about restarting baseball, but there is no answer yet. Ryuji, who expects to resume baseball, rents a Kobokusha building in Ginza, which is almost close to Shimbashi, with his acquaintance Shigeharu Ohno. I will meet Taro Nakaso on the street of Tsukiji on the way to see the right power in mid-September. We will talk about the current status of correct power, such as labor disputes and pursuit of war criminals in the Yomiuri Shimbun, and consider the future.

A few days later, Ryuji put a piece of paper with the Japan Professional Baseball Federation in a burnt building with the signboard of Sendai Works in Shimbashi. Ryuji is the secretary-general who kept the sign of the Japan Baseball Debriefing Session until the end of the war. The owner of the Sendai Plant of this burnt building is Tokuro Konishi. He was a smart Edo kid and also the coach of the Great Tokyo Army. For the 10 years before and after this, he was separated from the baseball world, but when professional baseball splits into two leagues, he became the director of the Central League Shochiku Robins and became the first Japanese series champion. He was a person who retired lightly in a year and became a commentator and became a huge popularity.

Under Ryuji, Sotaro and Shunsaku Kawamura, a pre-war federation clerk, will gather and work on a strategy for future resumption. Because it is a small office, of course Konishi will join the story. Sotaro and Ryuji go to the right home and share the recognition that baseball is indispensable for Japan's reconstruction. Kawamura goes to Osaka and checks the current state of baseball in Kansai. In early September, there was an article in a newspaper magazine in Kansai that Hankyu was calling for returning to players. . The actual situation of baseball in Tokyo is that there are no baseball stadiums, players, tools, dormitories, and meals, but Ryuji, nicknamed a razor, gathered reporters on October 8 to declare the resumption of the Baseball Federation.

In mid-October, when the players are getting to know little by little but they are not ready as a team in Tokyo, Konishi talked in a chat and said, "What if we do it in the east-west competition?" I don't know if I can do it, but everyone starts moving forward. Sotaro negotiates the use of GHQ and baseball stadiums, especially Jingu Stadium in English that he is good at. Ryuji contacted the players and the baseball team, Kawamura searched for dormitory and food, and finally the east-west match was held at Jingu Stadium on November 23.

It's Nichido Gallery in Ginza 5-chome. It is a Western-style painter who is said to have the oldest history in Japan.

Tsuguo Kobayashi, who came to see the dark market in Shimbashi in mid-September, met Konishi by chance. Kobayashi, the manager of the Tokyo Senateus, heard that Ryuji is starting to resume baseball, and began to think it was interesting. They move around as if they were possessed by creating a new baseball team with no companies or parent company, and just ask the president of Kawaguchi Securities, who is in trouble with funds and is far away, to become a personal sponsor. The team name is Senator. There is no business connection at all, but I choose the nickname of Tokyo Senatorus, where I and my younger brothers were involved. Kobayashi is the managing director, Saburo is the coach, Shiro is the manager, and Shichiro is the player. They are allowed to join the Federation and gather players. Shigeya Iijima, Yoshiichiro Shiraki and Hiroshi Oshita participated in the East-West Competition. It was a fresh team with no pre-war professional baseball experience. Oshita is very active in the East-West competition. We will hit 20 home runs in the season that resumed the following year. The maximum number before the war was 10. A record of a poor ball that does not fly opens the curtain of the home run era. However, the Senator, which is stuck in funding, is left to the individual capitalist, but the salary payment is delayed. Finally, on New Year's Eve in 1946, all players were gathered at the Nichido Gallery, handed over hundreds of yen over the year, and told them that they will become a Tokyu team from next year. Over the years, we have been connected to the current Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters.

Hiroshi Oshita, who uses blue bats, is said to be a genius batter and is called Kawakami of the red bat. Eiji Sawamura in the early days, Hiroshi Oshita in the post-war reconstruction period, and Shigeo Nagashima in the high growth period. They were three geniuses who emerged in the times and raised the popularity of baseball.

There is a catcher who competes in the second round of east-west competition on November 24 and hits two hits. I'm Tetsunosuke Fujiwara, a member of the Nagoya Army. Fujiwara was born in Tsukishima in Tsukishima, Chuo-ku. Fujiwara was aiming to conquer the whole country with the legendary folk ball pitcher Shigeru Sugishita at Teikyo Sho. His father works for the city hall and pays a salary of 65 yen, and receives a contract fee of 500 yen to the Nagoya army. He will be retired, but he will be active as a catcher of fighting spirit for 12 years as a regular in four teams after the war. At one point, I hit my friend's pitcher with a mound. It was popular as a rugged player.

This is a photo of Shigeru Chiba exhibited at the Baseball Hall of Fame. It is a big star that divided the popularity of rival Kawakami and the Giants throughout the pre-war period. When he was active as a main player, Shigeru Mizuhara thinks who will be the next generation manager. He was a solitary person like a samurai and was preferable by everyone rather than Kawakami, who concentrates only on his own blows, and consulted with Chiba, who had a close skin. Kawakami thinks that there is a distance from Suwon, but I know that Suwon recommended Kawakami instead of Chiba to players invited to the modest camp of SF Shields. And I return home after witnessing the fact that the coach is absolute and the importance of team play. Mizuhara has come to put trust in Kawakami, where he talks about team play. Mizuhara had a rival of fatty. I am from Takamatsu Commercial and enrolled in Keio University. He competes with his rival Osamu Mihara from Takamatsu in the same prefecture at Waseda University. After joining the professional, Mihara became the director of Nishitetsu, who was said to be a rural team at the time, with Mizuhara deprived of the giant's manager. And he defeats Suwon Giants in the Japan Series. Did Chiba think of his respected senior, Mihara, he changed his team's nickname to his nickname to his nickname, Takeshi (Buffalo), and became a director of Kintetsu who invited him until he changed his nickname to his nickname, but he retired with a weak position Did.

A former professional baseball player who has received a 10-year player badge can enter the baseball field. But the super famous player went through the face pass. I wrote in the Chuo-ku Baseball Yomoyama Story that he was wearing a high-class shirt protruding or crushing the heels of famous shoes. Chiba seems to have been refused to get on the current green car on a train heading for camp even when he was a player. It is stopped by a part-time student trying to enter with a face pass at Kawasaki Stadium in the 1950s. Noboru Aota came across a scene where he had no choice but to say that he was Shigeru Chiba, but was rejected because he couldn't help it. The shirts protruding were made of Italy Madons, and the shoes that crushed the heels were authentic Madrass. It was like that.

I'm Tsukiji Tamura, who is undergoing renovation work, says that it will open at the end of September this year. It's a famous Japanese restaurant.

The Giants, who left Chiba and retired Kawakami, lost to the Nankai after losing to Mihara's Nishitetsu and moved to the Se League's Ocean, will soon win again. Mizuhara, full of regrets, is called by Tamura at the end of the year. Mizuhara, who was told by the team's executive and dismissal on the spot, answered, "Let me think," and left the store, but 30 minutes after leaving, Kawakami entered. It seems that the Giants often used Tsutsukiji Tamura. The stage of the change of director was a restaurant in Chuo-ku.

It's Ginza Switzerland where Chiba passed. I wrote a story before that Chiba, who ordered curry rice to get a cutlet. It is famous as the birthplace of katsu curry.

It's really cool, but it's Hello! On the day of the broadcast on the radio on RADIO CITY, President Fujiwara of Ginza Switzerland appeared in the corner just before. I was talking about the day of Katsu curry. If January 22 is a curry day, apply to the Japan Anniversary Association to see if there may be a cutlet curry day. It seems that it is the founding date of Ginza Switzerland, not the day Chiba ordered (before the game against Giants Hanshin). When it was released in 1949, it was said that cutlet curry was a special menu item and the price was ¥ 180 when the starting salary of bankers was ¥ 3,000.

I like it very much, so I often eat the menu name "Chiba's cutlet curry". I think it's full of volume, but Chiba seems to have flattened two dishes perot.

Did you win the cutlet?

　[Katsu curry tastes good for victory]

It is the word of Chiba's signature colored paper displayed in the store.

The story of Chuo-ku baseball

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The story of the story of baseball.①

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References

Sotaro Suzuki "Immortal Large Pitcher Eiji Sawamura "Shigeru Chiba" The first generation of a cow"　

Toshiaki Ota "Eiji Sawamura Betrayed Ace" Robert K Fitz "Babbles the eve of the war"　　

Takashi Hayasaka "The baseball players scattered on the battlefield"　　　　"Full History of Professional Baseball" Management ""

Akira Suzuki "Japan Professional Baseball Resurrection Day"　　　　　Noboru Aota "Samurai's Professional Baseball"　　

Jun Henmi "Hiroshi Oshita's Life of Rainbow"　　　　　　Fifty Years of Glory of Giants"