1947 野球ファン YAKYU FAN Japanese Baseball Magazine~ VICTOR STARFFIN ~ Russian HOFer

Description: November, 1947野球ファン11月號 The Yakyu FanMagazine cover player...Victor Starffin Виктор Константинович Старухин ヴィクトル・スタルヒン nicknamed the 'The Blue-Eyed Japanese' Japanese Baseball Hall of Famer cover says...野球ファン = Baseball Fan11 月號 = November Issue This B&W Japanese Baseball Magazine was issued November 1947.A few action collage photo pages inside and text pages in middle and back. Viktor Starukhin Victor Starffin Виктор Константинович Старухин ヴィクトル・スタルヒン Victor is in the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame Starffin was a Russian-born baseball player. While playing in Japan, he became the first professional pitcher in Japan to win 300 games. With 83 career shutouts, he ranks number one all-time in Japanese professional baseball.   When Victor was a kid, after the Russian Revolution his family moved to Northern Japan. after HS, Starffin wanted to get into Japan’s Waseda University, but he was scouted by Matsutaro Shoriki in the autumn of 1934 as a member of the national baseball team for an exhibition game against the United States. At that time, the Ministry of Education had a regulation stating that high school baseball players who played professionally forfeited their eligibility to enter higher education, so Starffin was reluctant to turn pro. However, he and his family had entered Japan on transit visas, and his father, Konstantin Starffin, was in jail awaiting trial on charges of involuntary manslaughter, both of which put the family at risk of deportation. Shoriki effectively blackmailed Starffin, stating that if Starffin refused to play professionally, Shoriki would use his connections with the Yomiuri Shimbun to publicize the details of Konstantin Starffin's case. In 1957, Starffin was killed in a traffic accident when the car he was driving was hit by a tram.  In 1960, he became the First Foreigner Elected to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. looks to be complete light to average cover wear and stains (average wear on spine) light to average inside wear collector grade. thinner magazine is 7" by 10" and about 44 pages *The Yakyu Fan Magazine was a short-lived Japanese baseball magazine.It only lasted about 3 year until 1950. Great for the advanced 'Victor Starffin', or Japanese Baseball collector.... guaranteed authentic and unaltered. Satisfaction Guaranteed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~My BLOCKED BIDDER List...meobsol-3

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