Q:Tsuneo Horiuchi ( Horiuchi Tsuneo born January 16 1948 in Kofu Yamanashi) is a former professional baseball pitcher in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball and politician. In 2008 he was voted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Athlete