It has been announced that the NHK news program "Close-up Gendai" will air a memorial program entitled "Shigeo Nagashima and Hideki Matsui: The Dream They Realized Together" in memory of Shigeo Nagashima, the lifetime honorary manager of the professional baseball team Yomiuri Giants who passed away on June 3rd at the age of 89. The program will feature the little-known story of the master-disciple relationship between Nagashima and Hideki Matsui.
With rare footage and exclusive interviews, we take a look at the dream that Nagashima and Matsui, who brought a lot of excitement to the team with their 1,000-day plan to develop a cleanup hitter into a No. 4 hitter in just three years, their special training sessions just for the two of them, and the "10/8 Showdown" and "Make-It-Drama," achieved in their second year.
It will be broadcast on NHK General TV at 7:30 pm on June 4th.
