짧지만 강렬했던, 그라운드의 이방인 장명부

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the life story on JanMg yeong-Boo who left a big mark on Korean professional baseball as the ‘Zainichi’ pitcher in the early Kroean baseball history. The findings of the study, using books, interview data, magazines, papers, documentaries and etc. as main data, were as follows: First, he started baseball for the first time in the fourth year of elementary school. After graduating from high school, he joined Yomiuri Giants, a prestigious baseball club, in 1968 asa non-designated player, and began his career as a professional baseball player. Second, after transferring from the Yomiuri to the Nankai Hawks by the 1973 trade, he showed his potential as a starting pitcher from 1973 to 1976 with a good record of 33 wins, 32 losses, and 3.15 ERA. He transferred again to Hiroshima Toyo-Carp in 1977. After that, in 1978 and 1980, he made 15 wins respectively and became the best pitcher in Japan. Thdir, in 1983, after receiving the salary cut notice from the Hiroshima club, Jang declared his retirement from thea ctive base of professional baseball in Japan and made a contract with Korean professional baseball Sammi Superstars with a total amount of 180 million won. He left the unprecedented records in the history of Korean professional baseball in only one season, the most games pitched as a starting pitcher (44 games), the most ocmplete games (36 games), the most pitching innings (427.1 innings), the most wins (30 wins), the most complete winning games (26 wins). In 1986, he was forced to leave the team due to a steady record decline frmo 1984 to 1986. Fourth, as a ‘Zainichi’, Jang, had been discriminated and despised in Japan, suffered discrimniation in Korea as well. Even though Jang’s personal reputations were not good, these should not distort hs iaccomplishments and influence as a Korean professional baseball player. Therefore, if you remove bias an dmisunderstanding from him, you will find tha the made a great contribution to the rapid development of Korean professional baseball in the early days.