Wakayama / Hashimoto, boy team also | Kahoku Shimpo Online News / ONLINE NEWS”>Yoshitomo Tsutsugo, an outfielder of Pittsburgh Pirates, has decided to establish “TSUTSUGO SPORTS ACADEMY” in his hometown of Hashimoto, Wakayama, in search of an ideal baseball environment for children. Construction of the facility has already begun, and a part of the indoor practice area was almost completed at the end of last year. The remaining baseball stadium is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2022, but Tsutsugo will invest all of the construction cost of about 200 million yen without sponsors.
The academy, which is unprecedented for a single baseball player project, is the first step towards creating the ideal baseball environment for children that Tsutsugo holds.
“Until now, it was just words, but I finally decided to actually start moving.”
I heard about “establishment of an academy and construction of a stadium” from Tsutsugo when I met him at the end of December last year.
At the moment I heard it, the scale of the story was too big for me to do it individually, and it didn’t really come true.
“I will make all the money myself”
So I asked this question without thinking, “Eh, will the city or prefecture cooperate?”
“No, I’ll do it all myself. I’ll make all the money myself.”
He also asks, “Eh, isn’t it a huge amount of money?”
“I don’t know exactly how long it will take in total, but it will certainly take, but I think it’s time to actually start moving. So when you really make a stadium and the stadium is completed, there I’m thinking of forming a youth baseball team. “
Based on the story of the person himself, when I proceeded with the interview with my brother Yoshitomo Tsutsugo (representative of Go e studio Co., Ltd.) who is actually in charge, the outline of the project became clear.
