Yoshinori Hirose
Japanese baseball player, coach (1936-2025)
Yoshinori Hirose (広瀬 叔功, Hirose Yoshinori; August 27, 1936 – November 2, 2025) was a Japanese professional baseball outfielder in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. In 1999, he was voted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. He ranks second all-time in the NPB for stolen bases, with 596. He was also a member of the Meikyukai. Hirose died on November 2, 2025, at the age of 89.
“Yoshinori Hirose” enters the record as japanese baseball player, coach (1936-2025). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Yoshinori, Hirose and Japanese can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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