Itaru Ninomiya

Honestly, there's something about a guy who grew up in Hiroshima Prefecture and dedicated his life to baseball that just gets me — that region has this deep, almost mythic connection to the sport, and Itaru Ninomiya, born in 1953, would have come up through an era where the game was gritty and unglamorous in the best possible way. He joined the Giants in 1975 alongside two Komazawa University teammates and then spent decades coaching — sometimes that's the story — a guy who just showed up, did the work, and never made it about the noise. I have genuine respect for that breed of athlete. Old-school Hiroshima baseball energy, and I'm here for it.

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Itaru Ninomiya is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder, coach and manager born on November 15, 1953, in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture. He stands 174 cm tall. He played for the Yomiuri Giants from 1976 to 1983, later coached the Chunichi Dragons and the Yokohama DeNA BayStars, and manages the Seisa Dohto University team.

Name (English)

Itaru Ninomiya

Name (Japanese)

二宮至

Reading

にのみや いたる

Born

November 15, 1953 (age 72)

Origin

Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Height

174cm

Occupation

Baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Snake

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%8C%E5%AE%AE%E8%87%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11371513

Tags

• From Hiroshima Prefecture
• Baseball player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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