Tsutomu Wakamatsu
Japanese baseball player, coach, and manager
Baseball player
| Tsutomu Wakamatsu | |
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| Outfielder / Manager | |
| Born: (1947-04-17) April 17, 1947 (age 77) Rumoi, Hokkaidō, Japan | |
Batted: Left Threw: Right | |
| NPB debut | |
| 1971, for the Yakult Atoms | |
| Last appearance | |
| 1989, for the Yakult Swallows | |
| Career statistics | |
| Batting average | .319 |
| Home runs | 220 |
| Hits | 2,173 |
| Runs batted in | 884 |
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| As Player As Coach As Manager | |
| Career highlights and awards | |
NPB record
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| Member of the Japanese | |
 Baseball Hall of Fame | |
| Induction | 2009 |
Tsutomu Wakamatsu (若松 勉, Wakamatsu Tsutomu, born April 17, 1947) is a Japanese former baseball player, coach, and manager for the Yakult Swallows in Nippon Professional Baseball. He batted left-handed, and threw right-handed. His number 1 is honoured by the Swallows.
Awards and accomplishments
- MVP (1978)
- 2x Batting Title (1972,1977)
- 9x Best Nine Award (1972–1974, 1976–1980, 1984)
- Golden Glove Award (1977, 1978)
- Championship Series MVP (1978)
- 11x times All-Star selection(1972–1980, 1983, 1984)
- 2x All-Star games MVP (1973, 1977)
References
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference (Minors)
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Members of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
- Matsutarō Shōriki (1959)
- Hiroshi Hiraoka (1959)
- Yukio Aoi (1959)
- Shin Hashido (1959)
- Kiyoshi Oshikawa (1959)
- Jiro Kuji (1959)
- Eiji Sawamura (1959)
- Iso Abe (1959)
- Victor Starffin (1960)
- Yutaka Ikeda (1962)
- Haruyasu Nakajima (1963)
- Tadashi Wakabayashi (1964)
- Masaru Kageura (1965)
- Tetsuharu Kawakami (1965)
- Tsunetaro Moriyama (1966)
- Kazuto Tsuruoka (1969)
- Shunichi Amachi (1970)
- Nobuaki Nidegawa (1970)
- Shuichi Ishimoto (1972)
- Sadayoshi Fujimoto (1974)
- Fumio Fujimura (1974)
- Hideo Fujimoto (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)
- Shinji Kirihara (1984)
- Shigeru Sugishita (1985)
- Katsumi Shiraishi (1985)
- Atsushi Aramaki (1985)
- Shigeo Nagashima (1988)
- Kaoru Bettou (1988)
- Masaichi Nagata (1988)
- Saburo Yokozawa (1988)
- Yukio Nishimoto (1988)
- Masaichi Kaneda (1988)
- Hidenosuke Shima (1989)
- Katsuya Nomura (1989)
- Jiro Noguchi (1989)
- Juzo Sanada (1990)
- Isao Harimoto (1990)
- Shigeru Makino (1991)
- Osamu Tsutsui (1991)
- Kichiro Shimaoka (1991)
- Tatsuro Hirooka (1992)
- Michinori Tsubouchi (1992)
- Masao Yoshida (1992)
- Yoshio Yoshida (1992)
- Kazuhisa Inao (1993)
- Minoru Murayama (1993)
- Sadaharu Oh (1994)
- Wally Yonamine (1994)
- Shosei Go (1995)
- Tadashi Sugiura (1995)
- Tokichiro Ishii (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)
- Lefty O'Doul (2002)
- Masaoka Shiki (2002)
- Toshiharu Ueda (2003)
- Junzo Sekine (2003)
- Horace Wilson (2003)
- Sakae Suzuka (2003)
- Akira Ogi (2004)
- Noboru Akiyama (2004)
- Choji Murata (2005)
- Masaaki Mori (2005)
- Masayori Shimura (2005)
- Hiromitsu Kadota (2006)
- Morimichi Takagi (2006)
- Hisashi Yamada (2006)
- Yasumitsu Toyoda (2006)
- Hiromori Kawashima (2006)
- Takao Kajimoto (2007)
- Reiichi Matsunaga (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)
- Kazuo Sayama (2021)
- Katsuji Kawashima (2021)
- Shigeyoshi Matsumae (2022)
- Shingo Takatsu (2022)
- Masa Yamamoto (2022)
- Alex Ramírez (2023)
- Randy Bass (2023)
- Yūji Koseki (2023)
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