Tōru Mori
Tōru Mori (森 徹, Mori Tōru, 3 November 1935 – 6 February 2014) was a Japanese professional baseball player.
Tōru Mori | |||
---|---|---|---|
![]() | |||
Outfielder | |||
Born: Manchukuo, Empire of Japan | 3 November 1935|||
Died: 6 February 2014 78) Tokyo, Japan | (aged|||
| |||
NPB debut | |||
April 5, 1958, for the Chunichi Dragons | |||
Last NPB appearance | |||
1968 | |||
Career statistics | |||
Batting average | .251 | ||
Home runs | 189 | ||
Runs batted in | 585 | ||
Teams | |||
As player
As manager
| |||
Career highlights and awards | |||
| |||
Last updated on: 11 January 2016 |
Born in Manchuria, he was brought up in Hakodate, Hokkaido, but later moved to Tokyo. He started his baseball career playing for the Waseda University team, before turning professional by joining the Chunichi Dragons.
Personal life
His son, Takeshi Mori, is an anime director, and his daughter, Iku Mori, is a jazz singer.
He died on 6 February 2014 from hepatocellular carcinoma, aged 78.[1]
gollark: Like I said, it's *probably* fine, just slight interoperability between the command handling system and callback handling.
gollark: No, the framework allows some sort of shard-local state to pass to command handlers, it seems.
gollark: I'm sure there's a way to add a callback handler of some sort.
gollark: Okay, my thing now just sends five results.
gollark: An... "event"?
References
- 元中日4番・森徹氏、78歳で死去 (in Japanese). Sports Hochi. Archived from the original on 8 February 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.