Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
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Established | 1959 |
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Location | Tokyo Dome, Bunkyo Ward of Tokyo, Japan |
Coordinates | 35°42′20″N 139°45′07″E / 35.705658°N 139.751914°E |
Type | Professional sports hall of fame |
Director | Norio Ichino |
Website | baseball-museum |
The Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (野球体育博物館, Yakyū Taiiku Hakubutsukan) is a museum which includes a library, reference rooms and Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (野球殿堂, Yakyū Dendō).
It first opened in 1959 next door to Korakuen Stadium in Tokyo, Japan. In 1988, the museum moved to a new site within the Tokyo Dome.
The Hall of Fame and Museum was created as a means to contribute to the development of baseball in Japan through dedication of baseball greats—players, executives, and umpires—as Hall of Famers. In addition, the facility houses many memorable baseball materials including various kinds of baseball literature.
Players inducted[]
- Victor Starffin (1960)
- (1962)
- Haruyasu Nakajima (1963)
- Tadashi Wakabayashi (1964)
- Tetsuharu Kawakami (1965)
- Tsunetaro Moriyama (1966)
- Kazuto Tsuruoka (1969)
- Shunichi Amachi (1970)
- (1970)
- (1972)
- Sadayoshi Fujimoto (1974)
- Fumio Fujimura (1974)
- Hideo Nakagami (1976)
- Shigeru Mizuhara (1977)
- Michio Nishizawa (1977)
- Kenjiro Matsuki (1978)
- Shinji Hamazaki (1978)
- Takehiko Bessho (1979)
- Hiroshi Ohshita (1980)
- Makoto Kozuru (1980)
- Shigeru Chiba (1980)
- Tokuji Iida (1981)
- Yoshiyuki Iwamoto (1981)
- Osamu Mihara (1983)
- (1984)
- Shigeru Sugishita (1985)
- (1985)
- Atsushi Aramaki (1985)
- Shigeo Nagashima (1988)
- Kaoru Bettou (1988)
- Yukio Nishimoto (1988)
- Masaichi Kaneda (1988)
- (1989)
- Katsuya Nomura (1989)
- Jiro Noguchi (1989)
- Juzo Sanada (1990)
- Isao Harimoto (1990)
- Shigeru Makino (1991)
- (1991)
- (1991)
- Tatsuro Hirooka (1992)
- (1992)
- Yoshio Yoshida (1992)
- Kazuhisa Inao (1993)
- Minoru Murayama (1993)
- Sadaharu Oh (1994)
- Wally Kaname Yonamine (1994)
- Shosei Go (1995) — elected by the Special Committee
- Tadashi Sugiura (1995)
- (1995)
- Motoshi Fujita (1996)
- Sachio Kinugasa (1996)
- Katsuo Osugi (1997)
- Futoshi Nakanishi (1999)
- Yoshinori Hirose (1999)
- Takeshi Koba (1999)
- Sadao Kondo (1999)
- Tetsuya Yoneda (2000)
- Rikuo Nemoto (2001)
- Masaaki Koyama (2001)
- Kazuhiro Yamauchi (2002)
- Keishi Suzuki (2002)
- Yutaka Fukumoto (2002)
- Kenjiro Tamiya (2002)
- Toshiharu Ueda (2003)
- Junzo Sekine (2003)
- Akira Ogi (2004)
- Noboru Akiyama (2004)
- Choji Murata (2005)
- Masaaki Mori (2005)
- (2005)
- Hiromitsu Kadota (2006)
- Morimichi Takagi (2006)
- Hisashi Yamada (2006)
- Yasumitsu Toyoda (2006)
- Takao Kajimoto (2007)
- (2007)
- Koji Yamamoto (2008)
- Tsuneo Horiuchi (2008)
- Tsutomu Wakamatsu (2009)
- Seiichi Shima (2008)
- Osamu Higashio (2010)
- Hiromitsu Ochiai (2011)
- Mutsuo Minagawa (2011)
- Manabu Kitabeppu (2012)
- Tsunemi Tsuda (2012)
- Yutaka Ohno (2013)
- Hideo Nomo (2014)
- Koji Akiyama (2014)
- Kazuhiro Sasaki (2014)
- Atsuya Furuta (2015)
- Kihachi Enomoto (2016)
- Kimiyasu Kudoh (2016)
- Masaki Saito (2016)
- Tsutomu Ito (2017)
- Masaji Hiramatsu (2017)
- Senichi Hoshino (2017)
- Hideki Matsui (2018)
- Tomoaki Kanemoto (2018)
- Kazuyoshi Tatsunami (2019)
- Hiroshi Gondoh (2019)
- Koichi Tabuchi (2020)
Others[]
- Matsutaro Shoriki (1959)
- (1959)
- (1959)
- (1959)
- Kiyoshi Oshikawa (1959)
- (1959)
- Eiji Sawamura (1959)
- Iso Abe (1959)
- Masaru Kageura (1965)
- Masaichi Nagata (1988)
- Saburo Yokozawa (1988)
- Masao Yoshida (1992)
- Lefty O'Doul (2002)
- Shiki Masaoka (2002)
- Horace Wilson (2003)
- (2003)
- Hiromori Kawashima (2006)
See also[]
- The Meikyukai ("Association of Great Players" or "Golden Players Club") (also a Japanese baseball hall of fame)
- Nisei Baseball Research Project
- Professional baseball in Japan
External links[]
Coordinates: 35°42′20.37″N 139°45′6.89″E / 35.7056583°N 139.7519139°E
Categories:
- Buildings and structures in Bunkyō
- Baseball in Japan
- Baseball museums and halls of fame
- Museums in Tokyo
- Sports museums in Japan
- Museums established in 1959
- Awards established in 1959
- 1959 establishments in Japan
- Halls of fame in Japan
- Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame inductees