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CHUMA, Kanoe

Plays for Ichiko: translates "baseball" as now popularly called "yakyu"

Inducted	1970
Category	Elected by the Special Committee
From	Kagoshima
Born	1870
Died	1932
Alma Mater	Tokyo Imperial University

He was the first to translate the term "baseball into the Japanese "yakyu in 1894.In 1896 he led the Ikko Nine to a historic victory over YCAC. In 1897, he published Yakyu, the first book on baseball with notes and illustrations.

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