Nobumoto Kitayama of Nippon-Ham plays in the junior high school baseball club
Even the longed-for professional baseball players once chased the ball in youth baseball. Nippon-Ham pitcher Norimoto Kitayama, who boasts a top speed of 156 kilometers per hour, played for the baseball club of a junior high school in Kyoto City. Many players in junior high school are unsure whether to play softball or hardball, but Kitayama said that softball “was right for me.”
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Kitayama played for the baseball club of Kyoto Municipal Shuzan Junior High School. From that time he was a pitcher. when he was in third grade. It is said that a team of 14 club members advanced to the top eight in the spring city tournament. “Four of them were my classmates. I joined the boys’ baseball team in the winter of my third grade, and it felt like an extension of the baseball I played during break time and after school. That’s why I had a lot of fun memories,” he recalls. .
He is a player who knows his own body so well that he is nicknamed “Professor” among Nippon-Ham players. Before he entered junior high school, he said, “I had a longing for hardball,” but he said, “(In hardball), precocious players were active, and I thought that such players would go to the pros.” continue. Somehow he saw it as something otherworldly.
And he asserts that playing in the junior high school baseball club was “suitable for me. I think the risk of injury was low.” Furthermore, “Even if you throw, the risk of hitting a ball is low. continued.
“It was completely different” when I grasped the hard type I noticed the difference and grew further
After advancing to Kyoto Seisho High School, he entered the bench from the summer of the first year. He carried the uniform number “1” in the summer of his second year, and in the summer of his third year, he participated in Koshien for the first time in 19 years at the school. However, he said that he had a hard time holding a hardball for the first time.
“I still haven’t built up my body yet, and the weight of the ball is different. The feeling of throwing a softball was completely different from the feeling I had had before throwing a softball without difficulty. No. It feels like the unnecessary power is going to go into one tempo.”
Is it because of his inherent analytical ability that he was able to turn the difference he felt into a positive force? “I wanted to train and build a body that wouldn’t lose the ball. I wanted to be able to handle a hardball just like I was handling a softball. I was running as if it was training.”
Ever since I was a child, I wanted to be a professional baseball player. The words his father told him when he chose softball still stick in his mind. “Athletes who don’t get the sun in the middle-athletes won’t be able to become pros no matter where they go.” Kitayama said, “I thought you were right.” Now that Nippon-Ham’s starting rotation is supported, it can be said that the choice was correct.
(Keita Hatori / Keita Hatori)
2023-07-03 23:21:08
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