Toshio Kurosawa (baseball)

Kurosawa Toshio
黒沢 俊夫
Outfielder
Born: (1914-06-10)June 10, 1914
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Died: June 23, 1947(1947-06-23) (aged 33)
Batted: Left
Threw: Left
Japanese Baseball League debut
1936, for the Nagoya Kinko
Last Japanese Baseball League appearance
1947, for the Yomiuri Giants
Career hitting statistics
Batting average.259
Hits459
Home runs7
Runs batted in201
Teams

Toshio Kurosawa (黒沢 俊夫, Kurosawa Toshio, June 10, 1914[1] – June 23, 1947[2]) was a Japanese baseball outfielder who played eight seasons in the Japanese Baseball League from 1936 to 1947. His career was cut short due to typhoid fever, from which he died at age 33.[2] Kurosawa's number 4 was retired by his last club, the Yomiuri Giants, the same year, and was among the first to be retired in all of Japanese baseball.[2]

  1. ^ "Kurosawa Toshio" 黒沢 俊夫. Nippon Professional Baseball (in Japanese). Retrieved October 27, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c 巨人・黒沢俊夫の急死から日本に欠番が生まれた【1947年6月23日】 [The retired number was born in Japan from the sudden death of the Giants' Kurosawa Toshio (June 23, 1947)]. Shūkan Bēsubūru 週刊ベースブール [Weekly Baseball] (in Japanese). Japan. June 17, 2017. Retrieved October 27, 2019.