Baseball People from Hy Go Prefecture - Hanshin Tigers Players, Kyuji Fujikawa, Kenji Johjima, Kei Igawa, Cecil Fielder, Glenn Davis (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Hanshin Tigers players, Kyuji Fujikawa, Kenji Johjima, Kei Igawa, Cecil Fielder, Glenn Davis, Hideki Irabu, Matt Keough, Doug Creek, Randy Bass, Jeff Williams, Matt Murton, Casey Fossum, Buddy Carlyle, Mike Greenwell, Tsuyoshi Shinjo, Mike Kinkade, Larry Parrish, Ryan Vogelsong, Randy Messenger, Masanori Murakami, Tadashi Wakabayashi, Kevin Mench, Mike Blowers, Shane Spencer, Kevin Maas, Esteban Yan, Tom O'Malley, Scott Atchison, Dave Hansen, Chris Oxspring, Lew Ford, Ruppert Jones, Keiichi Yabu, Reno Bertoia, Rob Deer, George Altman, Shinobu Fukuhara, George Arias, Doug Ault, Chris Resop, Eduardo Perez, Makoto Imaoka, Jim Paciorek, Chico Fernandez, Darnell Coles, Paul Dade, Kazuhiro Yamauchi, Andy Sheets, Yuya Ando, Darwin Cubillan, Jason Standridge, Marvell Wynne, Kim Allen, Tony Tarasco, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Willie Kirkland, Yutaka Wada, Gene Bacque, Jamie Brown, Darrell May, Phil Hiatt, Tom Evans, Kento Sugiyama, Jason Hardtke, Craig Worthington, Dave Hilton, Atsushi Fujimoto, Greg Hansell, Trey Hodges, Fred Valentine, Shosei Go. Excerpt: Kyuji Fujikawa Fujikawa Ky ji, born July 21, 1980 in K chi City, Japan) is a closer for the Hanshin Tigers. Fujikawa pitched in the 2006 and 2009 World Baseball Classics as well as the 2008 Beijing Olympics. A prototypical power pitcher, Fujikawa is said to have one of the most explosive fastballs in all of Japanese professional baseball and is one of Japan's premier relievers. Fujikawa was born in K chi, K chi, in 1980, a member of the so-called Matsuzaka Generation. His name "Kyuji" literally means "baseball kid" in Japanese, and is often used as part of the phrase "K k -kyuji" ( ) to refer to a high school baseball player. It was reportedly given to him by his father because he had thrown a no-hitter in a sandlot baseball game the day before Fujikawa was born. He began pla...