Former Nishitetsu Lions pitcher Sadaaki Nishimura has passed away from liver cancer at 80 years of age. His pitched for the Lions from 1953 to 1962. He had a three year stretch between 1954 and 1956 where he went 62-18 but never approached that kind of dominance afterwards with the exception of the perfect game he threw in 1958 (the fifth one in NPB history). He worked as a baseball commentator after retiring as a player.
I don't have any contemporary cards of his although I assume he has both menko and bromide cards from the 1950's. I think he's only appeared in maybe four OB sets and half of those appearances were due to his perfect game. Here are the three cards that I have:
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1994 BBM Perfect Pitching #P5 |
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2008 BBM Lions Memorial #10 |
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2012 BBM No-Hitters #35 |
He also appeared in Epoch's 2012 History Of Best Nine box set.
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