In his 22-year career as a professional player (1959-1980), world baseball king Sadaharu Wang hit a total of 868 home runs, setting a world record of "unprecedented and difficult to come later". After retiring in 1980, the Giants retired his No. 1 jersey permanently.
Wang Zhenzhi was born on May 20, 1940 in Sumida District, Tokyo, Japan, the son of Wang Shifu, a native of Qingtian County, Zhejiang Province, China, who immigrated to Japan in the 1920s, and his mother Wang Dengmei was Japanese. He, his wife and three daughters still retain Taiwanese citizenship and hold a Taiwanese passport.
Although he has always refused to naturalize Japanese nationality, the "baseball king" is born and raised in Japan. The Chinese restaurant "Fifty Fan" run by his father was surprisingly good, and Wang Zhenzhi, who had not lacked clothes and food since childhood, also had the nickname of "Fifty Fan Little Young Master".
His wealth allowed Him to devote himself to baseball without scruples, and he became a teenager star in Japan in high school.
In 1959, as a high school graduate, Wang joined the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants with a record signing fee of 15 million yen and an annual salary of 1.4 million yen. At first, his grades were not good, but in 1962, after being instructed by others, he gradually practiced hard, and finally practiced a famous stunt: "Scarecrow Strike Method".
On July 1, 1962, during a battle with Dayang, Wang Beji began to use this method of blows, facing the opposing pitcher Inogawa, and completed three hits, including home runs, which were successful. Since then, Wang Zhenzhi has continued to use the scarecrow strike method until he retired from the army.
Wang Zhenzhi, known for his "scarecrow-style strike method" (also known as the "Golden Rooster Independent Strike Method"), set a new record for 55 home runs in a single season in 1964, and no one has yet surpassed it.
On September 3, 1977, at Tokyo's Korakuen Stadium, Wang Seiji broke Hank Aaron's 755 home run record (but the United States considered his professional baseball level to be better than Japan's, and was reserved, but Hank Allen, who retired the previous year, still had a very graceful cross-oceanic speech to express congratulations).
During his time as a player, he helped the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants win the Japan Professional Baseball Championship for 9 consecutive years. In 1977, he received the inaugural Japan National Honor Award, which was personally presented to him by then-Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda. He is still the first and only non-Japanese national to receive the prize.
Wang's achievements in the Japanese baseball world are breathtaking. Oh Sadaharu (Sadaharu Wang's Japanese pronunciation) has become almost synonymous with the king of baseball and is a household name in Japan. On January 29, 1997, the famous Japanese photographer Araki Keisuke photographed wang Sadaharu.
Wang Zhenzhi is recognized as the world baseball king, and is known as the world's three major sports kings together with the ball king Bailey and the boxing king Ali.
Tokyo Korakuen Stadium (formerly remodeled as Tokyo Dome) is a commemorative medal for Seiji Wang's baseball home run to break 800 goals.
In December 1965, Baseball star Wang Zhenzhi returned to Taiwan to meet with the general.
Take a group photo with your local baseball colleagues when you visit Taiwan.
On June 1, 1985, Xu Cai (3rd from left), then deputy director of the National Sports Commission, paid a special visit to Wang Zhenzhi, who was then the head coach of the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants.
After retiring from the army, Wang Sadaharu began his still brilliant coaching career, and also led the team to win the Japanese championship.
After retiring from the army, he became one of the Giants' assistant coaches in 1981. Four years after retiring from his career, Wang officially took over as the head coach of the Giants, but until he stepped down in 1988, the team had not won the "Japan Competition".
In 1994, he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Japan.
In 1995, he was hired as the head coach of the Fukuoka Daiei Eagles (renamed fukuoka software bank eagles in 2005). And for the SoftBank Eagles won the championship again in 1999, after a gap of 35 years. This was thrown up by the players after winning the championship.
On June 7, 2004, the Hawks won a match against the Hokkaido Japanese Ham Fighters, and Wang Wong won the 1,000th victory of his supervision career (the 11th in Japanese professional history).
In March 2006, at the age of 66, Seiji Wang became the head coach of the Japanese national team. Although the process of recruiting Japanese players from Major League Baseball was not smooth, the preliminary round was also blamed for losing to South Korea. However, he still led the Japanese team to beat the United States and Cuba to win the first World Baseball Classic Championship.
In July 2006, the entire stomach was surgically removed for gastric cancer, at a press conference after the operation. On September 23, 2008, due to health problems and the team's poor performance, he announced his resignation after the end of the season. He officially stepped down as head coach on October 7, ending a 40-year career in professional baseball.
When he retired, the SoftBank Eagles decided to "permanently retire" the "89" jersey used by Wang Zhenzhi when he was the head coach of the Eagles, and Wang Zhenzhi also became the first great player to enjoy "permanent retirement" in different teams.
Wang Zhenzhi was with the children
Wang Zhenzhi and daughter Wang Lihui.
After retiring from cancer, Wang Zhenzhi is still active today...