Waseda University

A member of the Tokyo Big Six University League, Waseda University is one of the major powers of Japanese collegiate baseball. Their primary rival is the Meiji University club. They won the All-Japan University Baseball Championship in 2007 behind freshman pitcher Yuki Saito. Isoo Abe organized the school's first baseball team in 1901 and remained active with the baseball program through 1925 at least.

In the spring of 1905, they became the first foreign team to tour the United States, playing a total of 26 games in Western states.

Notable Alumni

• Masafumi Abe, Japanese national team pitcher
• Choichi Aida, college coach; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Ikuhara Akihiro, MLB executive; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Takeo Akuta, NPB manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Motohiro Ando, NPB pitcher
• Norichika Aoki, outfielder
• Hiroshi Arakawa, NPB outfielder and manager
• Takashi Arakawa, NPB infielder
• Kohei Arihara, NPB pitcher
• Masao Date, amateur player; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Akira Ejiri, NPB outfielder and manager
• Shintaro Ejiri, NPB pitcher
• Chuujiro Endo, NPB pitcher
• Yuya Fukui, NPB pitcher
• Kazuo Fukushima, amateur pitcher; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Shin Hashido, amateur executive; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Kazuo Hayashi, amateur executive; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Tatsuro Hirooka, NPB infielder and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Takeshi Hosoyamada, NPB catcher
• Kuo-Cheng Hsieh, executive; Taiwan Baseball Hall of Fame
• Tadao Ichioka, NPB executive; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Tsuneo Ikeda, writer; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Yutaka Ikeda, NPB manager and umpire; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Shinjiro Iguchi, amateur player; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Hiroo Ishii, NPB infielder
• Renzo Ishii, college coach; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Tokichiro Ishii, college coach; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Yasuhiro Itami, college coach; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Toshio Ito, NPB outfielder
• Tsugio Iwata, NPB infielder
• Kazuo Kageyama, NPB infielder and manager
• Akio Kanemitsu, NPB catcher/infielder
• Yuya Kamada, NPB pitcher
• Tamotsu Kimura, NPB pitcher
• Hirotami Kojima, Japanese national team outfielder and manager
• Toshio Kojima, NPB infielder
• Satoru Komiyama, pitcher
• Akihito Kondo, NPB infielder and manager
• Atsushi Kono, NPB owner; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Jiro Kuji, amateur catcher; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Tadashi Matsumoto, NPB outfielder
• Masatoshi Matsuoka, NPB infielder
• Osamu Mihara, NPB infielder and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Yuko Minamimura, NPB outfielder
• Koichi Misawa, NPB pitcher
• Katsutoshi Miwata, NPB pitcher
• Shigeo Mori, NPB pinch-hitter and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Toru Mori, NPB outfielder
• Haruyasu Nakajima, NPB infielder/outfielder and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Katsuhiro Nakamura, NPB infielder and manager
• Kaoru Nimura, NPB outfielder
• Toshihisa Nishi, NPB infielder
• Daisuke Ochi, NPB pitcher
• Yoshihito Oda, NPB infielder
• Kunikazu Ogawa, NPB and minor league pitcher
• Shotaro Ogawa, writer; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Tomohisa Ohtani, NPB pitcher
• Akinobu Okada, NPB infielder and manager
• Fukuyoshi Okada, NPB infielder
• Motoi Okoshi, NPB outfielder
• Kiyoshi Oshikawa, NPB executive; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Atsuyoshi Otake, college coach
• Tatsuo Saeki, high school official; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Yuki Saito, NPB pitcher
• Katsutoshi Satake, Japanese national team pitcher
• Kiyoshi Sato, college coach
• Toyo Sawa, NPB manager
• Kota Suda, NPB pitcher
• Naoki Takahashi, NPB pitcher
• Aiichi Takeuchi, NPB pitcher and manager
• Munehide Tanabe, stadium executive; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Hiroyasu Tanaka, NPB infielder
• Katsuo Tanaka, college coach; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Goro Taniguchi, college pitching star; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Chujun Tobita, college coach; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Mojuro Tonooka, college coach; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• Takashi Toritani, NPB infielder
• Tsuyoshi Wada, NPB and MLB pitcher
• Min-Che Wu, college star; Taiwan Baseball Hall of Fame
• Soroku Yagisawa, NPB pitcher and manager
• Kazuhiro Yamakura, NPB catcher
• Kazunori Yamamoto, NPB pitcher
• Go Yamaoka, Japanese national team catcher
• Hiroshi Yamauchi, owner
• Takeshi Yasuda, NPB pitcher
• Kenichi Yazawa, NPB outfielder
• Kentaro Yoshinaga, Japanese national team pitcher

Coaches

• Chujun Tobita, 1920-1925
• Tadao Ichioka, 1926-1930
• Katsuo Tanaka, 1937-1939
• Yasuhiro Itami, 1940-1942
• Choichi Aida, 1946-1947
• Mojuro Tonooka, 1942-1963 (director?)
• Tokichiro Ishii, 1964-1973
• Renzo Ishii, 1988-1994
• Kiyoshi Sato, 1995-1998
• Atsuyoshi Otake, 2005-2010