Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame catcher and former Nankai Hawks manager Katsuya Nomura died of ischemic heart failure early Tuesday morning, according to the Rakuten Eagles, the last club he managed. He was 84.Nomura was one of Nippon Professional Baseball's greatest slugging catchers, amassing 657 home runs, 1,988 RBIs and 2,901 hits in 3,017 games over 26 seasons spent mostly with the Nankai Hawks, now known as the SoftBank Hawks.The Kyoto Prefecture native once famously said, "Nomura minus baseball equals zero. There would be nothing left if you take baseball away from me."Nomura's son Ka…READ FULL ARTICLE
