Meidai won 3 consecutive Vs…Director Takehiro Tanaka will take command from 2020
The 94th Inter-City Baseball Tournament, which decides the best amateur baseball player in Japan, was held at the Tokyo Dome in July, and ended with the victory of Toyota Motor Corporation. Takehiro Tanaka, manager of the Meiji University Baseball Club, who won the Tokyo Big 6 Baseball Championship for three consecutive seasons this spring, has a professional baseball background. In the 2022 draft of the Meiji University baseball team, infielder Kaito Muramatsu was nominated second from Chunichi, making it the 13th consecutive year of nominations, the longest in history. I want it,” and reveals his true intentions.
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Director Tanaka himself also devoted himself to baseball with the aim of becoming a professional when he was a student. “Because I hadn’t seen the world, I was wondering what it would be like, but after sending so many (athletes) to the professional ranks, I understood. I think”. After graduating from Meiji University, he played for eight years at Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., a prestigious member of society (closed in 2010). After his retirement, he left baseball to work in sales, and left the company in 2020 at the same time as becoming the manager of Meidai.
The Meiji University Baseball Club has produced many professional players, such as outfielder Keita Sano (DeNA) and pitcher Nobuhito Morishita (Hiroshima). .
“You don’t have a long time to play professionally. After you retire, you have to think about your second career, and I think you should prepare for that. In that respect, working people are stable, and it is rare that many large companies approach us.”
The time will come when he will have to retire from adult baseball, but he has always been in contact with students with the idea that “I want them to be okay even if they quit baseball.”
Thorough “human education” so that you can play an active role even after retiring from baseball
“Playing baseball at a big company that you wouldn’t normally be able to get into. I’m surrounded by people who are good at the job. I’m going to give them proper education so that they won’t be unable to keep up with their jobs after they retire. I’ll be studying during the exam period.” In terms of daily life, we strictly instruct them to “not oversleep”, “arrange the slippers in the shoebox”, and “wear socks even after taking a bath in the dormitory.” , if you’re wearing a polo shirt, I’m telling you, ‘People watching are watching.'”
Every year, the students are approached by many companies, and some of them even participate in company practices from their first or second year. “From here on out, it’s not a world you can go to because you want to go.
Most of the players who went on to adult baseball remained at the company and devoted themselves to the company’s business even after retiring, except for family reasons. narrows his eyes.
The head coach of Mitsubishi Motors Okazaki, which also participated in this year’s city competition, is Mr. Yuki Ito, who used to play for Nissan Motor like Director Tanaka. “Ito must have been seriously dedicated to his company’s business for many years, so he was approached. Customers don’t know that he entered the company through baseball. .
The Meiji University Baseball Club has professional players such as Kiyoshi Ueda infielder in the fourth year and Rui Muneyama infielder in the third year. The streak of nominations in the draft is unlikely to end. On the other hand, Director Tanaka intends to continue cultivating human beings who can be accepted in society so that students will not be troubled no matter what path they choose.
(Yuri Shinozaki)
2023-08-08 23:04:19
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