Hitoshi Tamura (多村仁志, born March 28, 1977) is a retired Japanese

professional A professional is a member of a profession or any person who works in a specified professional activity. The term also describes the standards of education and training that prepare members of the profession with the particular knowledge and ski ...

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...

player who last played with the

Chunichi Dragons The are a professional baseball team based in Nagoya, the chief city in the Chūbu region of Japan. The team plays in the Central League of Nippon Professional Baseball. They have won the Central League pennant nine times (most recently in 2011) ...

in Japan's

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. Following his release from the

Yokohama DeNA Baystars The are a professional baseball team in the Japanese Central League. Their home field is Yokohama Stadium, located in central Yokohama. The team has been known by several names since becoming a professional team in 1950. It adopted its current ...

in 2015, Tamura joined the

on a trainee contract with the hope of returning to professional baseball. On 1 October 2016 it was announced that Tamura was deemed surplus to requirements by the Dragons management. He then announced his retirement from professional baseball.

External links

NPB.com

References

1977 births Living people Baseball people from Kanagawa Prefecture Japanese baseball players Nippon Professional Baseball outfielders Yokohama BayStars players Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks players Yokohama DeNA BayStars players Chunichi Dragons players 2006 World Baseball Classic players {{Japan-baseball-outfielder-stub