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YAMAMOTO, Eiichiro

Helps promote baseball around the world

Inducted	1997
Category	Elected by the Special Committee
From	Okayama
Born	May 12,1919
Died	May 26,2006
Alma Mater	Keio University

From 1951 he umped for amateur baseball and in 1964 became director of Japan Baseball Federation, becoming its president in 1997. He helped getbaseball into the Olympics, and now president of Asian Baseball Federation.

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