
Former sluggers Alex Ramirez and Randy Bass were elected to Japan pro baseball's Hall of Fame on Friday, along with composer Yuji Koseki (1909-'89), who composed the theme song for the national high school baseball championship.
Ramirez, the first foreign-born player with 2,000 hits in Japanese baseball, and Bass, a two-time batting Triple Crown winner, were the only ones to gain the required number of votes in the "player" and "expert" categories, respectively, as announced by the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo,