Sachio Kinugasa
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 6 years ago |
Date of birth | January 18,1947 |
Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
Born | Higashiyama Ward |
Kyoto | |
Japan | |
Date of died | April 23,2018 |
Died | Tokyo |
Japan | |
Height | 175 (cm) |
Weight | 73 (kg) |
Inducted | 1996 |
Books | Tetsujin no hitorigoto: the Key to Life |
Job | Sports commentator |
Baseball player | |
Commentator | |
Children | Tomoaki Kinugasa |
Nationality | Japanese |
Home run | 504 |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 620212 |
Sachio Kinugasa Life story
Sachio Kinugasa was a Japanese professional baseball third baseman for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp of the Nippon Professional Baseball league from 1965 to 1987. He was nicknamed Tetsujin, meaning "Iron Man". He played in a record-breaking 2,215 consecutive games, having surpassed Lou Gehrig's record by 1987.