Masanori Ishikawa

Masanori Ishikawa is 167 cm tall. In a sport that likes to measure pitchers in centimetres and kilometres per hour, he built an entire career on neither. What he has is command, deception, and the patience to keep changing speeds until hitters twenty years younger talk themselves into a bad swing. By the 2025 season he was the oldest active player in Nippon Professional Baseball, still with the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, the only organisation he has ever pitched for. That second part impresses me almost more than the first. Staying somewhere two decades means being useful, again and again, to people who could replace you any winter. He kept proving it, quietly, in a uniform nobody expected him to still be wearing.

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Name (English)

Masanori Ishikawa

Name (Japanese)

石川雅規

Reading

いしかわ まさのり

Born

January 22, 1980 (age 46)

Origin

Akita, Akita Prefecture, Japan

Height

167 cm

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Monkey

University

Aoyama Gakuin University

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanori%20Ishikawa
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9F%B3%E5%B7%9D%E9%9B%85%E8%A6%8F
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q845437

Tags

• Akita Prefecture
• baseball player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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