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Masaichi Kaneda
(
金田 正一
,
Kaneda Masaichi
, August 1, 1933 ? October 6, 2019)
was a Japanese
professional baseball
pitcher.
[1]
He was one of the best-known pitchers in Japanese baseball history, and was the only Japanese pitcher to have won 400 games. He was added in the
Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
in 1988.
[2]
Kaneda was born in
Heiwa
,
Aichi
.
Kaneda died on October 6, 2019 in
Tokyo
of
sepsis
at the age of 86.
[3]