Kazuhiro Yamauchi

Who was Kazuhiro Yamauchi?

Kazuhiro Yamauchi was a Japanese baseball player and manager. He played for the Mainichi Orions, the Hanshin Tigers and the Hiroshima Toyo Carp over the span of an 18 season-long career.

Some of his stats include 7702 at bats, 1218 runs, 2271 hits, 396 home runs, 1286 runs batted in, 118 stolen bases, 1061 walks, and a batting average of .292. He was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 2002.

Yamauchi died of liver failure in a Tokyo hospital on February 2, 2009. He was 76.