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Hailing from the small town of rumo on the North Coast of Hokkaido suo wakamatsu was a great baseball player from an early age this got him recruited by hokai High School in sapuro hokkaido’s most prestigious baseball program after graduating wakamatsu went to work for denden Hokkaido where he
Quickly became hok’s best corporate ball player and was drafted by the yakal Adams in 1970 despite initial reservations about whether or not he could cut it in Tokyo wakam matu starred for the club from virtually day one and by the time it reverted back to the nickname swallows in 1974 wakamatsu was
The face of the franchise wakamatsu would be the first player in franchise history to win MVP when the swallows won their first pennant in Japan Series in 1978 and he stuck with the club until he retired at the age of 42 in 1989 wakamatsu then went on to manage
The swallows to their fifth Japan series title in 2001 and was elected to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 2009
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