As a junior, he played for the Kiryu High School team, where under the guidance of Toichiro Inagawa, he won the prefectural qualifying round for the Japanese High School Baseball Championship in the summer of 1961 and advanced to the semi-finals of the North Kanto Tournament, but fell short to the Sakushin Gakuin University team who also featured Soroku Yagisawa and Ikuo Shimano, missing out on the Koshien tournament.

He was classmates with fellow players Shiro Takegami, Toshimitsu Suetsugu, Yoshimasa Takahashi, Michihiro Takabatake and Shigeru Hino.

He hit two home runs and advanced to the finals, but was defeated by the Nippon Oil's Hiramatsu Masatsugu team and finished as a runner-up.

The following year, in 1968, he competed in the Intercity Baseball Tournament again, this time as a reinforcement player for Kawai Musical Instruments team.

He advanced to the finals as a key hitter, but fell short to the Fuji Steel Hirohata team and finished as runner-up again.

The same year, he participated in the 1994 Baseball World Cup held in Nicaragua as the manager of the Japanese national team.

[6] In the off-season of 1999, he was asked to become manager by Toyota Motor Corporation, a rival team in the same Tokai region, and accepted the offer.

On January 14, 2021, he was selected as a Baseball Hall of Fame Inductee (Special Award Category).,[9] and the award ceremony was held on July 14, before the start of the 46th Japan Amateur Baseball Championship Final ( Osaka Gas vs. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries East at Kyocera Dome Osaka ).