The announcement of this year’s Hall of Fame at the Baseball Hall of Fame was announced on the 14th, and the composer Yuji Koseki (1909-89) from Fukushima City, who was named as a special commendation candidate, missed the Hall of Fame. There was a disappointing voice from the people involved.
At the Yuji Koseki Memorial Hall, Mayor Hiroshi Kohata, the chairman of the “Meeting to Realize Mr. Yuji Koseki’s Hall of Fame,” waited for the announcement at 3:00 pm. Eight votes were collected at Koseki, but it was decided to be inducted into the late Shigeyoshi Matsumae Hall of Fame, the founder of Tokai University, who received nine votes. The people involved who confirmed on the museum’s homepage projected on the screen seemed disappointed, saying, “Well, one more vote?” “Is this year too bad?” The prepared Kusudama was not broken.
Mayor Kibata said, “Next year, I would like to continue my activities without giving up so that the crown will shine above Mr. Koseki.”
Koseki composed the “Olympic March” that rang at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics in 1964. Relative Yoshiko Koseki (84) = Fukushima City = said, “I expected this time to hold the Tokyo Olympics last summer, but I’m sorry.”
In the city, the movement to seek the realization of being inducted into the Hall of Fame began in earnest from around 2018. The “Hall of Fame Society” had submitted nominations to the museum four times.
