The Baseball Bullet-In this week would like to remember Tadahiro Ushigome, long-time baseball personality who died in Tokyo last month of a blood disorder at age 79. Although the date of his death was April 9, it was not announced until May 4.
¡°Tad¡± or ¡°Ushi,¡± as he liked to be called, worked for the Taiyo Whales, beginning in 1964. He stayed with the team after it became the Yokohama BayStars, serving a total of 37 years with the organization. He began his career in baseball as an interpreter and later advanced into the team¡¯s front office as a scout and executive. He was well known and respected in baseball circles in Japan as well as internationally.
I met him in 1976 at Kawasaki Stadium, that bandbox of a ballpark that was home to the Taiyo club at the time.
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