Masanori Murakami's Baseball Career
Masanori Murakami, a high school star, was initially resistant to Manager Kazuto Tsuruoka's persuasion to play for the Nankai Hawks in the Nippon Professional Baseball league.
However, Tsuruoka's promise to send him to America to "study baseball" changed Murakami's mind. As Murakami recalled during a talk at the Society of American Baseball Research convention on June 27, 2015:
"I changed my mind. I had seen 'Rawhide' and Hollywood movies with John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe, and I wanted to come (to America)."
On February 24, 1964, Tsuruoka informed Murakami and two other Hawks players, catcher Hiroshi Takahashi and infielder Tatsuhiko Tanaka, that they would be sent to the U.S. to play in the San Francisco Giants system.
Author's summary: Masanori Murakami recalls his baseball career.
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