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| Born:April 29, 1880 Tokyo, Japan | |||
| Died: February 12, 1912 (aged 31) | |||
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| Induction | 1966 | ||
Tsunetaro Moriyama(守山 恒太郎Moriyama Tsunetarō, 27 April 1880 – 12 February 1912) was a Japanese baseball player.
| 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 | |||
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| 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]
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