[Kyodo news]
Baseball: Sachio "Iron Man" Kinugasa dies at 71
Tokyo - Hall of Famer Sachio Kinugasa, whose 2,215 consecutive games
remain a Japanese record, died of colon cancer Monday aged 71, people
familiar with the matter said.
Nicknamed "Iron Man," Kinugasa played for the Hiroshima Carp
This news seems to have affected the broader-based TOPIX, which, as I write
this, is at 1,767.73, down 2.02 points or .11 percent.
On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 7:15 PM, danny burstein wrote:
> [Kyodo news]
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> Baseball: Sachio "Iron Man" Kinugasa dies at 71
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> Tokyo - Hall of Famer Sachio Kinugasa