
Baseball / Japanese Baseball Sep 15, 2019
Former Hanshin Tigers great, Sawamura Award winner Gene Bacque dies at 82
by Jason Coskrey
Former Hanshin Tigers ace Gene Bacque, the first foreign recipient of the Sawamura Award, passed away on Saturday night at the age of 82, multiple outlets in his home state of Louisiana have reported. Bacque died after complications from a surgical procedure. A native of ...