Focusing on responsibilities for victory-oriented attitude by coaches who account for the most part of corporal punishments during extracurricular sports club activities in which such punishments have been rampant, we limited subjects in the present study, in particular, to those of baseball clubs which have deep-seated problems of corporal punishments. Objective of the study was to clarify how coaches of clubs in baseball superpower schools or those trying to become such a superpower school, who have been under pressure to pursue victory more than ever, take responsibilities for victory-oriented attitudes based on what kind of logics. We adopted the responsibility concept set up by Omine et al. (2013).
As the results, it has been proved that coaches in baseball superpower schools or those trying to become such a superpower school take structural responsibilities for their victory-oriented attitudes from a sense of responsibility with obligation generated from victory-oriented attitudes ① in association with participation in baseball as a competitive sport, ② expected by those who are involved in baseball clubs and ③ based on educational logics. It has also been suggested that coaches of baseball clubs have such structural characteristics that victory is be positioned as an aspect to be evaluated among others.
Since such responsibility with obligation as not to exert corporal punishment also exists in such settings, on the other hand, it has been suggested that it is a responsibility with obligation for coaches in baseball superpower schools or those trying to become such a superpower to satisfy both responsibility with obligation to pursue victory and not to exert corporal punishment as well.
