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IKEDA, Tsuneo

Promotes baseball in Japan and abroad through publication

Inducted	1989
Category	Elected by the Special Committee
From	Niigata
Born	May 3,1911
Died	February 9,2002
Alma Mater	Waseda University

In the 1930s he wrote for Baseball World, becoming its chief editor in 1937. He founded Baseball Magazine Co. in 1946 and promoted baseball bypublication. In 1986 he introduced baseball to the USSR.

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