was a Japanese baseball pitcher.
He played for the
Yomiuri Giants
The are a Japanese professional baseball team competing in Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League. Based in Bunkyo, Tokyo, they are one of two professional baseball teams based in Tokyo, the other being the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. They ...
from 1960 to 1962, winning both the
Central League Rookie of the Year Award and the
Eiji Sawamura Award in his first season. The Giants won the
Japan Series
The Japan Series ( , officially the Japan Championship Series, ), also the Nippon Series, :File:2014_JS_logo.png is the annual championship series in Nippon Professional Baseball, the top baseball league in Japan. It is a best-of-seven series ...
the next year, and traded him for
Toshio Yanagida at the end of the 1962 season. Horimoto closed his playing career with the
Orions franchise, and coached the
Yokohama Taiyo Whales in two stints from 1977 to 1978 and 1991 to 1992. He then joined the
Nippon Ham Fighters coaching staff for two seasons, 1993 and 1994, followed by a return to coaching in 1997 with the
Uni-President Lions, a
Chinese Professional Baseball League
The Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL; ) is the top-tier professional baseball league in Taiwan. The league was established in 1989 and played the first season in 1990. CPBL eventually absorbed the competing Taiwan Major League in 2 ...
team.
Horimoto died of pneumonia in Yokohama on January 14, 2012, at the age of 76.
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1935 births
2012 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia in Japan
Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers
Nippon Professional Baseball Rookie of the Year Award winners
Baseball people from Osaka Prefecture
Yomiuri Giants players
Daimai Orions players
Tokyo Orions players
Japanese expatriate baseball people in Taiwan
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