Tsunetaro Moriyama

Tsunetaro Moriyama was a Japanese baseball player.

Career

Born in Tokyo, he was a southpaw pitcher for the First Higher School. He was famous for his hard training which enabled Ikkō to defeat the Yokohama Country & Athletic Club, the strongest team in Japan baseball during the late 1800s, after first losing to them. He later studied medicine at Tokyo Imperial University and became a military doctor, but died when he was infected by the infectious disease he was studying.
He was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966.