Gondō Hiroshi

An old Japanese phrase attached to him goes: Gondoh, Gondoh, rain, Gondoh - the rotation was him, the weather, and him again. People quote it as legend. It is really a record of overuse. In his 1961 rookie season with the Chunichi Dragons he won 35 games and took both the Central League Rookie of the Year and the Eiji Sawamura Award, and his arm paid for it; his run as a front-line pitcher was short. The part I admire came later. As a coach and manager he argued openly against grinding pitchers down, and in 1998 he took the Yokohama BayStars to a Japan Series title. He made sure the next generation would not pay his tuition. Born 1938 in Tosu, Saga.

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Name (English)

Gondō Hiroshi

Name (Japanese)

権藤博

Reading

ごんどう ひろし

Born

December 2, 1938 (age 87)

Origin

Tosu, Saga Prefecture, Japan

Height

177 cm

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Tiger

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi%20Gondoh
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A8%A9%E8%97%A4%E5%8D%9A
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5369249

Tags

• Saga Prefecture
• baseball player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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