When I was in elementary school, my dream was to be a professional baseball player with “Pitcher No. 4”
Now is the peak of the season for the domestic men’s professional basketball league “B League“. Shigehiro Taguchi of B1 Akita Northern Happinets, who puts himself in the heat of the game, is a professional player who retweets the post of “Pacific League.com” on his Twitter while heaping up the local Akita with a basket.・ I like baseball regardless of amateur. Taguchi talked a lot from his childhood baseball experience to the 2022 players to watch.
――I get the impression that you really like baseball from Taguchi’s Twitter account.
“I wrote in my profile that there are many baseball tweets, and I’m posting (posting) along with it. I want everyone to know the appeal of baseball.”
–What was your experience in baseball when you were a student?
“I was doing elementary and middle school. I started (basketball) in earnest from high school. When I was in elementary school, I was number 4 on the pitcher. In junior high school, I was doing something like a third. (Dream at that time was a baseball player?” ) Yes, I wanted to be a professional baseball player. “
――You focused on basketball instead of baseball in high school, didn’t you?
“I couldn’t play baseball in junior high school, so I had a lot of setbacks. I was growing taller, I was biting a basketball, and I knew it was fun, so I took this opportunity to challenge myself. I started trying to do it. “
――What made you like baseball in the first place?
“My dad loves baseball and the Giants were on TV every day. I didn’t quit (competition) because I didn’t like baseball, so my favorite feelings haven’t changed.”
–What is the appeal of baseball that Taguchi thinks?
“Isn’t it attractive to have no time? Basketball and soccer have a time limit, and it ends when there are 0 seconds left. Basketball has to decide the game in 40 minutes. Baseball does. Instead, it doesn’t end until I get 27 outs. I have to give up until the end … It’s the same, but I think it’s interesting to have a situation where you don’t know what will happen in baseball. “
――Do you ever go to the baseball stadium and watch the game during the off-season of the B League?
“I was in Chiba until last season, so I went there. I also went to ZOZO Marine Stadium and Tokyo Dome.”
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