Kazuhiro Yamauchi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese baseball player
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Place of Birth: Ichinomiya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
About Kazuhiro Yamauchi
- Kazuhiro Yamauchi (?? ??, Yamauchi Kazuhiro, May 1, 1932 – February 2, 2009) was a Japanese baseball player and manager.
- He played for the Mainichi Orions, the Hanshin Tigers and the Hiroshima Toyo Carp over the span of an 18 season-long career (1952–1970).
- Yamauchi was the first Japanese professional baseball player to hit 300 home runs, achieving that feat in 1963.
- Some of his career stats include 7,702 at bats, 1,218 runs, 2,271 hits, 396 home runs, 1,286 runs batted in, 118 stolen bases, 1,061 walks, and a batting average of .292.After retiring as a player in 1970, he went on to become an NPB manager and coach for nearly 30 years. He was a founding member of the Meikyukai ("The Golden Players Club") in 1978, and was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 2002.Yamauchi died of liver failure in a Tokyo hospital on February 2, 2009.
- He was 76.
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