*anese baseball player

Hisashi Yamada (山田 久志, Yamada Hisashi, born July 29, 1948) is a retired *anese professional baseball submarine pitcher. He played with the Hankyu Braves in Nippon Professional Baseball from 1969 to 1988.

Yamada won the Pacific League MVP for three years in a row (1976–1978), sharing a record with Ichiro Suzuki (1994–1996) for the most consecutive awards won. In addition, Yamade won the *an Series MVP in 1977. He won 20 or more games four times in his career, including notching 26 victories in 1976. Yamada twice won the Pacific League earned run average championship, with marks of 2.37 in 1971 and 2.28 in 1977.

As coach of the Chunichi Dragons in 1999, he led the team to the Central League pennant.

He was inducted into the *anese Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006.

In 2009, Yamada served as a coach for the *anese team in the World Baseball Cl*ic.

See also

• List of top Nippon Professional Baseball strikeout pitchers

References

External links

• Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from *aneseBaseball.com