Overview

• On June 3 at 6:39 a.m. local time, the Yomiuri Giants announced Nagashima’s death from pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital.
• During a 17-year career with the Giants, he batted .305 with 444 home runs, won six batting titles and led the team to nine consecutive Japan Series championships from 1965 to 1973.
• He managed the Giants from 1975 to 1980 and again from 1993 to 2001, capturing Japan Series titles in 1994 and 2000.
• He formed a celebrated partnership with Sadaharu Oh that helped cement baseball’s status in postwar Japan and was inducted into the country’s Baseball Hall of Fame in 1988.
• Shohei Ohtani led social media tributes, and the Yomiuri Giants will hold a two-day memorial this week at the main square of Giants Town Stadium.