Chunichi coach Kazuyoshi Tatsunami enters his third year of competition after coming from last place for two years in a row. How can he turn a headwind into a tailwind? Through anecdotes from his time at PL school, testimonies from people involved in professional baseball, and his two years as a manager, he discovers the bright light for the 2024 season. 〈#2 “Legendary PL School Era” / 2nd of 8 episodes〉
Hiroki Nomura (formerly from Yokohama), a classmate of Kazuyoshi Tatsunami at PL Gakuen, says:
“There is no man who has faced baseball with more honesty and sincerity than Tatsu.Nobody has to struggle as long as they can get results in one or two years.For the past two years, I have been cultivating the soil and sowing seeds. We are in a situation where young buds like (Yuki) Okabayashi are finally emerging.It is still too early to draw any conclusions.Everything is being criticized now, but I am not pessimistic.”
Tatsunami’s origins in leading the team lie in his days at PL Gakuen, where he served as captain and won back-to-back Koshien spring/summer titles in 1987.
Kuwata and Kiyohara entered PL in 1985 when they were in their third year.
Tatsunami entered the school in 1985. In the PL at that time, the KK duo of Masumi Kuwata and Kazuhiro Kiyohara reigned as third-year players, and they were participating in Koshien for four consecutive seasons. This was the peak of PL Academy’s ability and popularity.
However, no matter how much a junior high school student wishes to enroll, not everyone will be able to pass through the PL gate. There was always a need to match the glasses of a certain person. That man is Toshihide Imoto, known as the legendary scout. He was a first-year student at PL Gakuen and was the coach when the school first participated in Koshien. Later, during the lifetime of Tokuchika Miki, the second founder of the school’s parent organization, the Perfect Liberty Order (he passed away in 1983), he was given the strict orders to scout junior high school students, and from the 1980s to the 1990s, he was a shadow of the Eternal Victory Corps. I supported him from
Imoto visited the Ibaraki Naniwa Boys, where Tatsunami was a member, and fell in love with the talents of ace Kiyoshi Hashimoto (former Giants and others) and Tatsunami, who played shortstop, and tried to lead them to the PL. Imoto says.
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