[情報] 阪急勇士隊阪本敏三過世

Monday, April 25, 2022

2022年4月25日 星期一

RIP Toshizo Sakamoto

Toshizo Sakamoto, infielder for four different Pacific League teams between
1967 and 1980, passed away about a month ago from Parkinson's disease but it
didn't make the news until today. Sakamoto is primarily remembered for two
things - misplaying a ground ball in the 1971 Nippon Series and being the
first designated hitter in Pacific League history in 1975 - although
surprisingly only one of these events is mentioned in his obituary in Nikkan
Sports.

阪本敏三是在1967年至1980年間效力四支洋聯球隊的內野手，在一個月前（3月22日）因帕金森症候群過世，但直到今天(4月25日)才釋出新聞。阪本主要事跡為兩件：1971年日本大賽漏撲一個滾地球使其形成安打，以及1975年成為洋聯史上第一位指定打擊，但在日刊體育的訃告只提到其中一件事。

He had been playing for Kawai Instruments in the corporate leagues when he
was drafted in the fifth round of the 1966 draft by the Hankyu Braves. He
quickly became the Braves' starting shortstop and won the PL Best 9 award at
shortstop every year between 1968 and 1971. He also led the PL in steals in
1969 and made the All Star team each year from 1968 to 1971.

阪本在1966年選秀會被阪急勇士隊第五指名，被指名前效力業餘球隊河合樂器。阪本進入阪急勇士隊，立即成為先發游擊手，並在1968年至1971年獲得洋聯最佳九人，1969年洋聯盜壘王、1968年至1971年日本職棒明星賽。

I don't know this for sure, but I think the misplay in the 1971 Series cost
him his future with the Braves. Hankyu and the Giants had split the first
two games when Braves ace Hisashi Yamada took the mound for Game Three.
Yamada pitched a great game, holding the Giants to only two hits and no runsover the first eight innings. Giants pitcher Shitoshi Sekimoto also pitched
well, giving up only five hits and one run to the Braves. With one out in
the bottom of the ninth, Yamada walked Isao Shibata, his first free pass of
the day. After Toshiro Yanagida flew out for the second out, Shigeo
Nagashima stepped to the plate. Nagashima hit a slow ground ball a little tothe left of up the middle that Sakamoto could not quite get to - it rolled
into the outfield with Shibata going all the way to third. Sakamoto
apparently had taken a step in the opposite direction when the ball was hit
which prevented him from reaching the ball. Sadaharu Oh was the next batter
and he drove the ball into the right field stands at Korakuen Stadium for a
sayonara three run home run. Oh's shot is considered the turning point for
the Giants who went on to win the next two games 7-4 and 6-1 and win the
Series 4 games to 1.

我不確定我這個觀點，但我認為1971年日本大賽中的失誤讓他失去了在阪急勇士隊的未來。在1971年日本大賽中，前兩場阪急隊與巨人隊各贏一場1：1平手，而在G3中阪急勇士隊的王牌投手山田久志投出一場精采的表現，讓讀賣巨人隊前8局只擊出兩支安打且沒有得分。讀賣巨人隊的關本四十四也表現極為出色，只被擊出5支安打失1分。山田在9局下1出局保送了柴田勳，這是山田在當天的第一個保送。接著讓柳田俊郎擊出飛球形成兩出局，接著輪到長嶋茂雄站上打擊區。長嶋面對山田擊出了游擊與二壘壘包間的緩慢滾地球，但游擊手阪本完全無法接住，球最後滾到外野，柴田站上了三壘。當球被擊出時，阪本很明顯地慢了一步以致於撲不到球。王貞治是下一個打者，他最後擊出了再見三分全壘打。王貞治的全壘打被認為是讀賣巨人隊的轉折，讀賣巨人隊在接下來的G4、G5贏得比賽，並獲得日本一。

You can see the play (along with a bunch of Calbee Braves cards) in the
middle of the following video:
你可以在下面的Youtube影片看到1971年日本大賽G3的片段。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f7UWXRZOfU

Regardless of whether or not Hankyu blamed Sakamoto for the Series loss, he
wasn't a Brave anymore after that season. He was traded with Koji Okamoto
and Seigo Sasaki to the Toei Flyers for Masayuki Tanemo and Yutaka Ohashi.
He made the All Star team in 1972. The next year the team (now called the
Nittaku Home Flyers) moved him to third base and he shifted to second base
two years later (when the team was now the Nippon-Ham Fighters). While he
was the first player to bat as a designated hitter in 1975 he spent most of
his time that season in the field - according to his stats at Baseball
Reference he played at second base in 94 of the 96 games he appeared in that
year.

不管阪急勇士隊有沒有把日本大賽失敗的責任都推給阪本，他在季末就與岡村浩二、佐佐木誠吾被交易到東映飛人隊，阪急勇士隊則換得大橋穰與種茂雅之。1972年也入選日本職棒明星賽，在東映隊→日拓隊→火腿隊這三年間守備位置變更為游擊手→三壘手→二壘手
。雖然他是1975年洋聯第一位擔任指定打擊的球員，但他在1975年出賽96場，有94場擔任二壘手。

He was dealt a second time after the 1975 season - the Fighters sent him
along with Kenichi Yaezawa to the Kintetsu Buffaloes for Toshikazu Hattori
and Yozo Nagabuchi. After three years with the Buffaloes he again switched
teams - this time going to the Nankai Hawks (not sure if there was a trade, asale or if he was released by Kintetsu). He spent two years with the Hawks -the last one as player-coach - and retired following the 1980 season. He
spent a couple years as a commentator before coaching for Kintetsu from 1984
to 1996.

1975年季末與八重沢憲一被交易到近鐵猛牛隊，日本火腿鬥士隊換得永淵洋三、服部敏和與市橋秀彥。在近鐵猛牛隊三年後，1979年到了南海鷹隊，在南海鷹隊則是球員兼教練，最後在1980年退休，退休後擔任球評跟近鐵猛牛隊教練。

Somehow there are almost no baseball cards of Sakamoto that were issued
during his career. I only know of four and three of those (the Broder "JY4"
and "JY6" sets from 1975 and 1976 respectively and the 1979 TCMA set) were
American issues. His only card actually issued in Japan was a game set
issued with the July 1976 issue of the "Elementary School 3rd Year" magazine
that used a caricature of him rather than an actual photo. He does not have
any Calbee, Takara or Yamakatsu cards that I'm aware of. He has appeared in
a number of BBM OB sets - the 2009 Hankyu Braves Memorial set, the 2011
Legend of Bs set, the 2013 The Trade Stories set and the 2021 Orix Buffaloes
History set - as well as the 2017 Epoch Hankyu Braves Greats set. Here's
all the cards I have for him - I've arranged them in chronological order of
the teams he played on:

(介紹球員卡)

阪本敏三
1943年7月13日至2022年3月22日
阪急→(東映→日拓→火腿)→近鐵→南海
G1447 H1303 HR97 RBI449 SB243 .272/.331/.385/.716

以上來源：
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2022/04/rip-toshizo-sakamoto.html

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