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Sachio Kinugasa
Baseball Player
1947 –
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Who is Sachio Kinugasa?
Sachio Kinugasa is a former Japanese baseball player with Hiroshima Carp. He is nicknamed Tetsujin, meaning "Iron Man".
Kinugasa passed Lou Gehrig's world record for consecutive games played in 1987. This record was later broken by Cal Ripken, Jr. in 1996.
He was inducted into the Japanese baseball hall of fame in 1996.
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- Born
- Jan 18, 1947
Japan - Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- Japan
- Lived in
- Kyoto
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on July 23, 2013
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