
Baseball / Japanese Baseball | Sac Bunts Feb 11, 2020
Batterymates Katsuya Nomura, Joe Stanka shared special bond decades after playing for Hawks
by Jason Coskrey
The ball that brought an end to the 1964 Japan Series between the Nankai Hawks and Hanshin Tigers landed, as so many others had over those seven games, in Hawks catcher Katsuya Nomura's mitt. That final pitch (a swinging strike) was thrown by Nankai star ...