Until Shinichi Eto, a warlord, becomes a professional baseball player.Encounter with a great general and a great scout from poverty (January 10, 2022) --Excite News

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From the 1960s to the 1970s, there was a baseball player named Shinichi Eto who made the baseball world lively (died in 2008). He was called a "fighting general" for his fighting play, and won the top hitter in both the Sepa and Pa leagues for the first time in the history of Nippon Professional Baseball. He was selected as the best nine six times, and although he was as good as ON, his baseball life was full of ups and downs. Who on earth was Shinichi Eto? Kimura Yukihiko, a journalist and non-fiction writer, approaches the life of Shinichi Eto, a professional baseball player who has never been seen before, based on the testimonies of many famous players.

Until Shinichi Eto, a warlord, becomes a professional baseball player. Click here for images of famous generals and ska from poverty >> Shinichi Eto training with dumbbells Shinichi Eto as a boy was far from the image of a great master later. He had a weak bronchus, he had an incurable diphtheria, and he had been banned from exercising for a long time. Kyushu, which respects the spirit of Takeshi, was not allowed to participate in physical education time in Kumamoto, and it was really hard to be forced to visit from the classroom, according to his own book ("Fighting General Fire and Burning"). It is written.

Eto, the eldest son of four brothers, wrote that his parents' house was full of children, cheerful, but poor, "it was like the" The Child Writers "in the movie." "Spelling Brothers" (produced in 1958) is a story about the three Nogami brothers in Katano City, Osaka, who live in extreme poverty with the support of their strong composition, but the eight-year-old second son, Fusao, is decent in the play. One of the themes is the pain caused by poverty, in which he cannot see a doctor and is given a powerful drug, causing intestinal paralysis and suddenly dying. If the Eto family is also compared to that, it is possible to guess how the situation was like washing red poor.

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