Fumio Fujimura

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Fumio Fujimura (藤村富美男, Fujimura Fumio^?, born August 14, 1916 in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, died May 28, 1992) was a right-handed pitcher for the Osaka Tigers in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

In the 1933 National High School Baseball Championship, his team reached the quarterfinals but his opponent Masao Yoshida pitched a shutout in the game. In the final of 1934 National High School Baseball Championship, he faced Tetsuharu Kawakami and had three strikeouts in three at bats. He won the championship. In Tigers, he was also active as a hitter. In 1950, he recorded 191 hits. This record remained unbroken for 44 years, until Ichiro Suzuki in 1994. He was inducted to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. His number, 10, is retired with the Hanshin Tigers.