 The team announced that Nagayasu would be released after the end of the season, and the story was reported in Japanese newspapers the next day.Late in November, the executive committee presiding over the NPB at the time voted to ban Nagayasu from the league for life, the first time any player had been banned from Japanese baseball.On April 1, 1970, in an exclusive tape-recorded interview with the "Shūkan Post" newspaper, also broadcast on Fuji Television, Nagayasu revealed that other players on his former team were also involved in game-fixing.