Ritsuo Horimoto
Ritsuo Horimoto | |||
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Pitcher | |||
Born: Osaka Prefecture |
January 20, 1935|||
Died: Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Yokohama, Kanagawa |
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NPB debut | |||
1960, for the Yomiuri Giants | |||
Last appearance | |||
1965, for the Tokyo Orions | |||
NPB statistics | |||
Win–loss record | 63–59 | ||
Earned run average | 3.18 | ||
Strikeouts | 1,273 | ||
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Ritsuo Horimoto (堀本律雄 Horimoto Ritsuo?, January 20, 1935 – January 14, 2012) was a Japanese baseball pitcher.
He played for the Yomiuri Giants from 1960 to 1962, winning both the Central League Rookie of the Year Award and the Eiji Sawamura Award in his first season. The Giants won the Japan Series the next year, and traded him for Toshio Yanagida at the end of the 1962 season. Horimoto closed his playing career with the Orions franchise, and coached the Yokohama Taiyo Whales in two stints from 1977 to 1978 and 1991 to 1992. He then joined the Nippon Ham Fighters coaching staff for two seasons, 1993 and 1994, followed by a return to coaching in 1997 with the Uni-President Lions, a Chinese Professional Baseball League team.
Horimoto died of pneumonia in Yokohama on January 14, 2012, at the age of 76.[1][2]
References
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference (Minors)
- BR Bullpen
- Articles containing Japanese-language text
- 1935 births
- 2012 deaths
- Deaths from pneumonia
- Infectious disease deaths in Japan
- Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers
- Nippon Professional Baseball Rookie of the Year Award winners
- Sportspeople from Osaka Prefecture
- Yomiuri Giants players
- Daimai Orions players
- Tokyo Orions players
- Japanese expatriate sportspeople
- Japanese expatriates in Taiwan