Satoshi "Fibber" Hirayama (born 1931) is a Japanese-American baseball player who played for the Hiroshima Carp in Japan's Central League

Central League

The or is one the two professional baseball leagues that constitute Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan. The winner of the league championship plays against the winner of the Pacific League in the annual Japan Series. It currently consists of six teams from around the country,The Central League...

. Hirayama was an All-Star twice in Japan.

During World War II, Hirayama was interned at the Poston War Relocation Center

Poston War Relocation Center

The Poston War Relocation Center, located in Yuma County of southwestern Arizona, was the largest of the ten American internment camps operated by the War Relocation Authority during World War II....

 with his father and two brothers.

Hirayama was a star athlete at Fresno State College, playing both baseball and football, and was voted "Nisei Player of the Year" in 1951. From 1953 to 1955, Hirayama continued his baseball days as a soldier at Fort Ord

Fort Ord

Fort Ord was a U.S. Army post on Monterey Bay in California. It was established in 1917 as a maneuver area and field artillery target range and was closed in September 1994. Fort Ord was one of the most attractive locations of any U.S. Army post, because of its proximity to the beach and California...

. After being discharged, Hirayama signed with the Hiroshima Carp in the Japanese Baseball League. Hirayama and fellow teammate Kenshi Zenimura were the first Japanese Americans to play in Japan.

Hirayama won the 2009 Al Radka Award, and is currently the head of the Japanese Baseball Development Program in the Dominican Republic.

The nickname "Fibber" came from his father's attempts to say "February", the month of his birth.