Mr. Kimura (left), chairman of the alumnus club that published “Tokorozawa High School Baseball Club 100 Year History,” and Ms. Okamura in Tokorozawa.
In 1923, Saitama Prefectural Tokorozawa High School Baseball Club Alumni Association published “Tokorozawa High School Baseball Club 100 Year History” (A4 size, 106 18 pages) was published. Six hundred copies will be distributed to alumni, high school baseball players mainly in the western part of the prefecture, and libraries. (Hiroshi Nakazato)
The Commemorative Project Executive Committee plans to publish a commemorative magazine at the same time as the celebration. Yoshinari Okamura (70), a former Tokorozawa High School teacher who also served as the baseball manager, edited the commemorative magazine. It is the eighth school in the prefecture to establish a baseball club, and the second one to publish a 100-year history after the prefectural Kawagoe High School.
Tokorozawa High School began as Kyoritsu Eiwa Gakusha in 1898, and after repeated name changes and integration, it became a prefectural Tokorozawa High School in 1953. During this time, the materials were scattered, and there were fewer materials left in the school than at ordinary prefectural high schools, and it was difficult to collect the materials when editing the commemorative magazine. In addition to the history of the baseball club and the records of prefectural tournaments over time, “we published the results of the prefectural teams in Koshien so that many people could use it,” says Okamura.
Kazuo Kimura (73), the chairman of the OB-Kai and a graduate of 1968, works at Tokorozawa City Hall, while also serving as a referee for the Prefectural Takano Ren until the age of 70, and was in charge of three prefectural tournament finals. He once wore a mask as a ball umpire. After graduating, there are many alumni who have continued to be involved in baseball, such as professional baseball players, sports newspaper reporters, and Paris League records managers. Akutagawa Prize-winning author Yusho Takiguchi (40) is also said to have graduated from the baseball club in 2001.
In recent years, private schools have continued to participate in Koshien, but in the commemorative magazine, they are discussing measures to restore public power at a round-table discussion of successive directors.
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