Kiyoshi Oshikawa

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Kiyoshi Oshikawa

Kiyoshi Oshikawa (Oshikawa Kiyoshi, 押川清, 1 January 1881 – 18 March 1944) was a Japanese baseball player, executive and the founder of the first Japanese professional baseball team.

Early life and education

Oshikawa, on the right, in junior high school (Mitsuyo Maeda is on the left)

Oshikawa was born in

Sendai, Japan, where his father was a Christian minister. He attended Waseda University in Tokyo. After college he was in the Japanese military for a year.[citation needed
]

Baseball career

Clubhouse in Shibaura stadium

Oshikawa was a star baseball player at Waseba University and a student of Professor

Abe Isō, who has been called the "Father of Japanese baseball."[3] After graduation he played for the Tomon Club, composed of the Waseda Baseball Club's alumni.[1]
Oshikawa participated in a 1905 baseball tour of the United States under Abe's leadership, the first tour of the U.S. by a Japanese team. The tour had a strong influence on Oshikawa; because of the cost, they only visited minor league cities on the west coast. He was impressed that "professional baseball players compete against each other to sharpen their skills every day.” He adopted the concept of
franchise, claiming a city as its base with exclusive right to play in that city, in a stadium built for the team. He said that "a baseball team must have a stadium."[4] Oshikawa was an advocate for baseball and publicly defended the sport, which at the time was viewed as harmful.[5]
In 1920 Oshikawa, with two former Waseda classmates, founded the first professional baseball team in Japan, the Nihon Athletic Association (NAA, 日本運動協会). By 1921 there were four teams.
Korakuen Eagles, built a stadium for them and became team president.[1] Oshikawa was one of nine to be in the first group inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1959.[3]

Personal

Oshikawa's father was evangelist

MMA artists of the modern era and studied with him at the Kodokan Judo Institute
. Oshikawa died of esophagal cancer at age 63.

References

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  5. ^ Suzumura, Yusuke. "The Formation of First Professional Baseball Team in Japan". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ^ a b "sayonara home run!". Agate Type. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
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  8. ^ "Japan, Sport and Society (Sport in the Global Society) – PDF Free Download". epdf.pub. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
  9. ^ "みやぎ野球史）殿堂、初回に選ばれた押川清：朝日新聞デジタル". 朝日新聞デジタル (in Japanese). 23 January 2020. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  10. ^ "日本の墓：著名人のお墓：押川 清". www.hakaishi.jp. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  11. ^ "Collected Works of Shunro Oshikawa". www.02.246.ne.jp. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
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