3× Central League Best Nine Award (1975, 1980, 1984)
Central League Stolen Base Champion (1976)
3× Centaral League Golden Glove Award (1980, 1984, 1986)
Central League MVP (1984)
Central League RBI Champion (1984)
Matsutaro Shoriki Award (1984)
People's Honour Award (1987)
Hiroshima Toyo Carp #3 retired
Records
2215-Consecutive Games (1970–1987)
20-years consecutive seasons over 10 Home runs (1968–1987)
13-years consecutive seasons over 20 Home runs (1974–1986)
5-consecutive games Home runs (June 6–10, 1971)
Hitting for the cycle (July 7, 1976)
2-Hit by pitches in the same inning (August 31, 1976)
2-consecutive games Lead-off home runs (October 4–5, 1977)
Member of the Japanese
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction
1996
Sachio Kinugasa (衣笠 祥雄; January 18, 1947 – April 23, 2018) was a Japanese professional baseball third baseman for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp of the Nippon Professional Baseball league from 1965 to 1987. He was nicknamed Tetsujin, meaning "Iron Man". He played in a record-breaking 2,215 consecutive games, having surpassed Lou Gehrig's record by 1987.
Kinugasa is mostly remembered for his consecutive-game streak, but he ranks seventh in Nippon Professional Baseball in career home runs (504), 5th in career hits (2543) and 10th in career RBIs (1448), showing that he was one of the most consistent hitters in Japanese baseball. He was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1996.
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