Hisashi Yamada
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Yamada won the Pacific League MVP for three years in a row (1976–1978), sharing a record with Ichiro Suzuki (1994–1996) for the most consecutive awards won. In addition, Yamada won the Japan Series MVP in 1977. He won 20 or more games four times in his career, including notching 26 victories in 1976. Yamada twice won the Pacific League earned run average championship, with marks of 2.37 in 1971 and 2.28 in 1977.
As coach of the Chunichi Dragons in , he led the team to the Central League pennant.
He was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in .
In 2009, Yamada served as a coach for the Japanese team in the World Baseball Classic. Provided by Wikipedia
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2by Osamu Yamada DR., Masaharu Akiyama, Kiyotaka Kawauchi, Tomoko Adachi, Hisashi Yamada, Naotoshi Kanda, Eizo AikawaGet full text
Published 2003-05-01
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5by Shinichi Takagi, Mitsuru Takenaka, Noriyuki Taoka, Masahiko Hata, Tetsuji Yasuda, Hisashi Yamada, Noriyuki Miyata, Yuji Urabe, Tatsuro Maeda, Wipakorn JevasuwanGet full text
Published 2012-03-01
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6by Nobuyuki Kobayashi, Shunichiro Shinagawa, Tomoyuki Nagata, Kazuya Shimada, Nobuto Shibata, Tohru Ohnuma, Koji Kasanuki, Heii Arai, Hisashi Yamada, Kazuhiko Nakayama, Kazuhiro KondoGet full text
Published 2016-01-01
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7by Nobuyuki Kobayashi, Shunichiro Shinagawa, Tomoyuki Nagata, Kazuya Shimada, Nobuto Shibata, Tohru Ohnuma, Koji Kasanuki, Heii Arai, Hisashi Yamada, Kazuhiko Nakayama, Kazuhiro KondoGet full text
Published 2016-01-01
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8by Tomoyuki Nagata, Nobuyuki Kobayashi, Jumpei Ishii, Shunichiro Shinagawa, Ritsuko Nakayama, Nobuto Shibata, Bolati Kuerban, Tohru Ohnuma, Kazuhiro Kondo, Heii Arai, Hisashi Yamada, Kazuhiko NakayamaGet full text
Published 2015-03-01
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9by Ayako Suzuki, Nobuto Shibata, Koji Kasanuki, Tomoyuki Nagata, Shunichiro Shinagawa, Nobuyuki Kobayashi, Tohru Ohnuma, Yoshihide Takeshita, Eri Kawai, Toshiki Takayama, Kenya Nishioka, Yumiko Motoi, Nobutaka Hattori, Kazuhiko Nakayama, Hisashi Yamada, Heii AraiGet full text
Published 2016-03-01
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