Mr. Osamu Mori, former director of the baseball club at Urawa Gakuin Children’s cafeteria and baseball coaching project “Attractiveness of sports”: Tokyo Shimbun TOKYO Web

Urawa Gakuin High School (Midori-ku, Saitama City), former director of the baseball club, Osamu Mori (57) and others have launched a project to teach baseball in collaboration with the children’s cafeteria.

Hiroki Uchida (40), president of Residential Real Estate (Chuo-ku, Tokyo), which is engaged in support activities such as donations to children’s cafeterias, proposed to make children feel the charm of sports. The NPO “Fire Reds Medical Sports Club” (Midori Ward, the same city), which is chaired by Mr. Mori and handles baseball schools for junior high school students, and Saitama Musashi Heat Bears (Kumagaya City), a professional baseball independent league and BC league, agree. bottom.

Former professional baseball players who are active in Fire Reds and heat bears players are planning to open a baseball class for children who use the children’s cafeteria, or go to the children’s cafeteria in the prefecture to give guidance. It is said that it aims to implement it several times within this year while observing the infection status of the new coronavirus.

At a press conference in Saitama City on the 7th, Mr. Mori said, “The environment for children to play sports is decreasing due to the corona disaster. I want to create an opportunity for them to move their bodies.” Kota Sumi, director and president of Heat Bears (31), also enthusiastically said, “I want to contribute to the increase in the baseball population and the development of human resources through baseball.” (Yusuke Sugihara)