Ex-pro baseball slugger Nakanishi dies

Ex-pro baseball slugger Nakanishi dies

Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Futoshi Nakanishi, who led the Pacific League in home runs five times, batting average twice and RBIs three times during his 18-year career with the Nishitetsu Lions (now Seibu Lions), is pictured in March 1968. Nakanishi died at age 90 of heart failure at his Tokyo home on May 11, 2023.

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