Shugo Maki

He started playing baseball in the first grade at Nakano Municipal Nakano Elementary School when his older brother joined the King Animals,^[4] a baseball team for third grade and above, and started batting fourth in the fall of his second grade year.^[5] Since his parents were both working, he spent his days practicing baseball with his grandfather, who had a net set up in the yard where he practiced hitting every day.^[4] When he was a student at Nannomiya Junior High School in Nakano, he was a member of Wakaho Little Senior, and although it was a newly established team, it participated in national tournaments in its second and third years.^[4][6]

At Matsumoto Daiichi High School, he was a center fielder from the spring of his freshman year^[7] and won the prefectural tournament in the spring of his junior year, but lost the first game of both the summer of his sophomore and junior years.^[8][9] In high school, two grades above him was Daiki Momose.^{[citation needed]}

In the professional baseball draft held on 26 October 2020, he was selected in the second round by the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.^[10] He tentatively signed a contract for 77 million yen and an annual salary of 13 million yen (amount is estimated).^[11] His number is 2.^{[citation needed]}

On 22 December 2020, he was awarded the Nakano City Honor Award.^{[citation needed]}