Suguru Egawa

Suguru Egawa had a fastball people describe as rising, which is physically impossible and tells you everything about how it looked from the batter's box. He should have been a national hero. Instead the manoeuvring over how he joined the Yomiuri Giants, the notorious blank day and the trade that sent Shigeru Kobayashi the other way, made him the villain of Japanese baseball before he had thrown a professional pitch. None of it was about his pitching. He wore down and retired at thirty-two, and I think leaving with talent unspent is exactly why the legend outgrew the record. He commentates now, calmly, like a man who long ago stopped explaining himself.

Name (English)

Suguru Egawa

Name (Japanese)

江川卓

Born

May 25, 1955 (age 71)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Goat

Origin

Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

Height

183 cm

Occupation

baseball player / tarento

University

Hosei University

Motto

Private

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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B1%9F%E5%B7%9D%E5%8D%93%20(%E9%87%8E%E7%90%83)

Tags

• Fukushima Prefecture
• baseball player
• tarento

Last updated

2026-07-26

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