Katsunari Miyai

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Early life and career

He was from Suginami, Tokyo.[1] He studied at Waseda Jitsugyo and Chuo University.[1] He played in the Japanese High School Baseball Invitational Tournament in 1941.[1] He was an outfielder for the Chuo University Baseball Team.[1]

In 1954, he became the baseball coach of his alma mater Waseda Jitsugyo.[1] He became the manager in 1955.[2] In 1957, the team won the 29th Japanese High School Baseball Invitational Tournament.[1] From 1959 to 1993, he was the manager of the Chuo University Baseball Team.[1] The team won one Meiji Jingu Baseball Tournament in 1974 and three Japan National Collegiate Baseball Championships in 1972, 1973, and 1979.[2][3] They also won eight Tohto University Baseball League championships.[4] He was the team's general manager from 1994 until his death.[2][5]

He died in Mitaka, Tokyo of lung cancer on 7 August 2020, aged 94.[2][4][5]

His daughter Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value). married baseball player Toshimitsu Suetsugu.[6]

Works

  • Miyai, Katsunari (1980). 軟式野球 はじめて野球を志す人のために [Nanshiku Baseball: For Those Who Are New To Baseball] (in Japanese). Nihon Bungeisha.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 (in Japanese)Excite Japan (IAC). 2017-01-14. https://www.excite.co.jp/news/article/TokyoSports_639964/. Retrieved 2020-08-07. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 (in Japanese)Sponichi Annex (Sports Nippon Newspapers). 2020-08-07. https://www.sponichi.co.jp/baseball/news/2020/08/07/kiji/20200807s00001000197000c.html. Retrieved 2020-08-07. 
  3. 中央大学硬式野球部-あゆみ (in Japanese). Chuo University Baseball Team. Archived from the original on 2016-07-25. Retrieved 2020-08-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  4. 4.0 4.1 (in Japanese)The Sankei News (Sankei Shimbun Co. Ltd.). 2020-08-07. https://www.sankei.com/sports/news/200807/spo2008070014-n1.html. Retrieved 2020-08-07. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 (in Japanese)Nikkan Sports (The Nikkan Sports News). 2020-08-07. https://www.nikkansports.com/baseball/news/202008070000176.html. Retrieved 2020-08-07. 
  6. (in Japanese)Nikkan Gendai (Kodansha). 2006-09-25. http://gendai.net/?m=view&g=sports&c=040&no=23462. Retrieved 2020-08-07.