Kenjiro Matsuki

He played for Tokyo Yomiuri Giants starting in nineteen seventy-six and for the Lotte Orions, now the Chiba Lotte Marines, from nineteen eighty.

Although Harimoto's right hand had been burned when he was four years old, batting coach Kenjiro Matsuki helped him refine his natural hitting ability to hit the gaps in the field.

During his twenty-three-year professional career, Harimoto played in two thousand seven hundred fifty-two games, the fourth-highest total in Japanese baseball history.

The outfielder finished with a career batting average of point three one nine, with five hundred four home runs, one thousand six hundred seventy-six runs batted in, and three hundred nineteen stolen bases.