Sachio Kinugasa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Sachio Kinugasa

baseball player

Date of Birth: 18-Jan-1947

Place of Birth: Higashiyama-ku, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 23-Apr-2018

Profession: tarento, baseball player

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Sachio Kinugasa (?? ??; January 18, 1947 – April 23, 2018) was a Japanese professional baseball third baseman for the Hiroshima Carp of the Nippon Professional Baseball league from 1965 to 1987.
He was nicknamed Tetsujin, meaning "Iron Man".
He played in a record-breaking 2,215 consecutive games, having surpassed Lou Gehrig's record by 1987. Kinugasa is mostly remembered for his consecutive-game streak, but he ranks seventh in Nippon Professional Baseball in career home runs (504), 5th in career hits (2543) and 10th in career RBIs (1448), showing that he was one of the most consistent hitters in Japanese baseball.
He was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1996.