Fumio Fujimura

In the 1933 National High School Baseball Championship, Fujimura's team Taishō reached the quarterfinals, but Masao Yoshida of Chukyo Shogyo pitched a shutout in the game.

In the finale of the 1934 National High School Baseball Championship, Fujimura faced Tetsuharu Kawakami and struck him out three times in three at-bats.

With a stat line of 46 home runs, 142 RBI, and a .332 average, Fujimura was the Most Valuable Player in 1949, the last season before the JBL reorganized into Nippon Professional Baseball.

Jim Albright, an expert on Japanese professional baseball, ranks Fujimura as among the top players in NPB history[1] and possibly worthy of induction to Cooperstown.

[3] Fujimura appeared as an actor in the jidaigeki drama Shin Hissatsu Shiokinin in 1977[4] and Eiichi Kudo's film Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity in 1979.