Hidehiro Kumazawa

Honestly, Hidehiro Kumazawa is exactly the kind of guy who flies completely under the radar and somehow that makes him more interesting to me. Born in 1966 in Toki City — a small ceramics town tucked into eastern Gifu — he's not the name you're pulling out at baseball trivia night, but that's sort of the point: he went and played professional baseball anyway. He never appeared for the first team, yet he stayed with the Carp as a bullpen catcher and coach until 2012, the story of someone carving out a career in pro sport through sheer stubbornness. That's the kind of underdog arc I'll always root for.

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Hidehiro Kumazawa is a Japanese former professional baseball catcher born on July 30, 1966, in Toki City, Gifu Prefecture. He stands 174 cm tall. Drafted by the Hiroshima Toyo Carp in 1984, he retired in 1990 without a first-team appearance and later served as a bullpen catcher and as a Carp minor-league coach from 1996 to 2012.

Name (English)

Hidehiro Kumazawa

Name (Japanese)

熊澤秀浩

Reading

くまざわ ひでひろ

Born

July 30, 1966 (age 60)

Origin

Toki City, Gifu Prefecture, Japan

Height

174cm

Occupation

Baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Horse

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%86%8A%E6%BE%A4%E7%A7%80%E6%B5%A9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11568653

Tags

• From Gifu Prefecture
• Baseball player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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