births
November 7, 1947
Yutaka Fukumoto, Japanese baseball player and coach
Yutaka Fukumoto
Yutaka Fukumoto is a retired Japanese professional baseball player in Nippon Professional Baseball. An aggressive lead-off man and superior defensive centerfielder, he holds the Japanese career records in triples and stolen bases. He also hit more lead-off home runs than anyone in Japanese history, with 43. In 2002, Fukumoto was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.