Sachio Kinugasa, Japanese baseball player and journalist (died 2018)

Sachio Kinugasa

Japanese baseball player (1947–2018)

Sachio Kinugasa was a Japanese professional baseball third baseman for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp of the Nippon Professional Baseball league from 1965 to 1987. He was nicknamed Tetsujin, meaning "Iron Man". He played in a record-breaking 2,215 consecutive games, having surpassed…