It was a good week for the Hiroshima Carp family as two former pitchers were elected to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. Manabu Kitabeppu and the late Tsunemi Tsuda garnered enough votes to enter Tokyo's version of Cooperstown. Their induction ceremony will take place at an All-Star Game at Kyocera Osaka Dome this coming summer.
Kitabeppu picked up 257 votes, while Tsuda got 237, one above the minimum 236 required to get in. The third-place vote-getter pulled in 223, just 13 shy of the cutoff line, and who do you suppose it was?
Former Hankyu Braves, Orix BlueWave and Fukuoka Daiei Hawks slugger Greg "Boomer" Wells was No. 3.