Tsunetaro Moriyama

Tsunetaro Moriyama
Tsunetaro Moriyama
	Pitcher
	Born: April 29, 1880; Tokyo, Japan
	Died: February 12, 1912 (aged 31)
	Threw: Left
Teams
	First Higher School;
Member of the Japanese
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction	1966

Tsunetaro Moriyama (守山恒太郎, Moriyama Tsunetarō, 27 April 1880 – 12 February 1912) was a Japanese baseball player.

Career[]

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]

He was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966.^[2]

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Moriyama Tsunetarō". Asahi Nihon Rekishi Jinbutsu Jiten (in Japanese). Asahi Shinbun. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Moriyama Tsunetaro". The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Retrieved 18 November 2013.

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[Asahi-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Moriyama Tsunetarō". Asahi Nihon Rekishi Jinbutsu Jiten (in Japanese). Asahi Shinbun. Retrieved 18 November 2013.

[Fame-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Moriyama Tsunetaro". The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Retrieved 18 November 2013.

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