Former professional baseball player and long-serving manager Katsuya Nomura will be featured in the documentary program "Another Stories: Turning Points of Fate," airing on NHK BS on June 24th at 9:15 PM. The subtitle of this episode is "Katsuya Nomura in 2003: Amateur Baseball Revived the Legendary Manager." The program traces the little-known days of Nomura, who left professional baseball in 2001, through his handwritten notes and testimonies from players.
In 2001, Nomura left professional baseball due to his wife's tax evasion scandal, and spent three years in obscurity in the amateur baseball world. What did Nomura learn from the 27 young people who were purely striving to improve in the dusty practice field...?
For this program, we received from Nomura's family the original manuscript of "Nomura's Thoughts," a secret notebook and memo that Nomura never showed to anyone else during his lifetime. This is the story of Nomura, who rebuilt himself from rock bottom before becoming the manager of the Tohoku Rakuten Eagles.
