1962 Chunichi Dragons Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 70-60
Finished 3rd in the JPCL
Manager: Wataru Nonin (70-60)
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Ballpark: Nagoya Stadium

1962 Chunichi Dragons Roster

The Chunichi Dragons of the Japan Central League ended the 1962 season with a record of 70 wins and 60 losses, finishing third in the JPCL.

The Dragons plated 469 runs, tops in the circuit. Chunichi conceded 407 runs. Shinichi Eto paced the team with 23 home runs Masuho Maeda drove in 63 runs. Shinichi Eto led hitters with significant playing time by hitting .288. Hiroshi Gondo earned 30 wins on the mound for the squad, while Minoru Kakimoto added 15 or more victories also Minoru Kakimoto registered a 2.07 earned run average, leading regular hurlers.

Larry Doby and Don Newcombe both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Wataru Nonin served as manager.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Hiroshi Gondo	30	17	.638	2.33	61	39	18	23	6		362.3	307	108	94	26	69	2	212	3	0	5	1421
Minoru Kakimoto	20	17	.541	2.06	60	40	13	16	3		318.3	263	89	73	16	33	5	157	15	1	0	1240
Nobuyuki Kadooka	10	10	.500	3.01	53	23	9	5	3		203.3	170	76	68	12	33	2	80	2	1	0	802
Yasuhiko Kawamura	4	5	.444	3.02	35	11	4	4	3		122.0	101	45	41	9	35	4	66	3	0	6	494
Shigetaka Nishio	3	1	.750	3.00	22	3	5	0	0		39.0	34	13	13	3	8	0	18	1	0	0	156
Eiji Bando	2	9	.182	4.26	28	13	8	2	1		88.7	85	44	42	10	25	1	56	3	0	3	364
Hisanobu Mizutani	1	0	1.000	0.00	4	1	2	0	0		8.3	3	0	0	0	1	0	9	0	0	0	29
Toshiharu Kamai	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0		2.0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	8
Saburo Takeya	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0		0.3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
Toshitake Nakayama	0	0		2.89	28	1	13	0	0		28.0	26	10	9	1	6	0	27	0	0	1	112
Don Newcombe	0	0		4.50	1	1	0	0	0		4.0	2	2	2	0	2	0	4	0	0	0	16
Jun Takenaka	0	0		5.56	7	0	3	0	0		11.3	12	7	7	1	1	0	2	1	0	0	50
Tatsumi Yamanaka	0	1	.000	4.37	14	1	7	0	0		22.7	23	13	11	3	4	0	13	1	0	0	96
Totals	70	60	.538	2.68	315	133	83	50	16	0	1210.3	1027	407	360	81	219	14	645	29	2	15	4790

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Shinichi Eto	133	562	493	74	142	13	0	23	61	4	4	60	61	.288	.365	.454	.820	224	4	3	1	5	5
Masuho Maeda	133	511	468	46	133	23	4	13	63	4	4	24	50	.284	.323	.434	.757	203	15	6	7	6	4
Toshio Naka	127	521	477	51	131	15	10	6	33	11	21	36	38	.275	.324	.386	.710	184	4	0	6	2	2
Akiteru Kono	114	437	393	53	101	15	0	10	33	26	8	29	65	.257	.312	.372	.683	146	6	4	7	4	0
Carlton Hanta	112	386	345	25	82	9	1	3	30	4	3	25	44	.238	.291	.296	.586	102	1	2	11	3	1
Don Newcombe	81	301	279	34	73	23	0	12	43	0	0	21	52	.262	.316	.473	.789	132	2	1	0	0	2
Morimichi Takagi	96	256	239	24	67	11	5	1	15	10	5	4	28	.280	.295	.381	.676	91	2	1	12	0	0
Tatsuhiko Ito	118	289	269	23	67	11	0	4	21	3	2	11	44	.249	.283	.335	.617	90	6	2	6	1	0
Larry Doby	72	268	240	27	54	9	1	10	35	0	0	25	73	.225	.302	.396	.698	95	5	2	0	1	2
Yosuke Terada	125	281	264	14	54	6	0	5	24	1	0	10	50	.205	.237	.284	.522	75	13	2	3	2	0
Hideaki Homoto	108	227	208	19	38	3	2	3	14	1	3	13	22	.183	.233	.260	.493	54	2	1	4	1	3
Shigeo Hasegawa	79	165	144	18	33	3	2	6	15	0	0	21	38	.229	.327	.403	.730	58	0	0	0	0	1
Hiroshi Gondo	61	130	117	10	25	5	0	4	13	0	0	4	19	.214	.238	.359	.597	42	3	0	8	1	0
Mamoru Zaitsu	63	107	97	7	24	3	0	0	6	1	0	7	17	.247	.305	.278	.583	27	2	1	2	0	0
Tokio Takagi	38	67	64	2	16	1	0	0	3	0	1	1	3	.250	.262	.266	.527	17	0	0	2	0	0
Minoru Kakimoto	60	113	101	5	15	4	0	1	2	1	0	5	34	.149	.189	.218	.407	22	2	0	7	0	0
Taisuke Kobuchi	22	41	39	10	14	1	0	5	10	2	1	2	12	.359	.390	.769	1.159	30	0	0	0	0	0
Yasuhiko Kawamura	35	34	31	3	12	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	7	.387	.387	.484	.871	15	0	0	3	0	0
Yoshimitsu Okano	10	36	35	3	11	0	1	0	5	0	0	1	6	.314	.333	.371	.705	13	0	0	0	0	0
Mitsuo Imazu	56	41	39	13	8	0	0	1	5	0	3	0	4	.205	.205	.282	.487	11	1	0	2	0	0
Nobuyuki Kadooka	53	61	56	3	7	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	20	.125	.155	.125	.280	7	0	1	3	0	0
Eiji Bando	28	25	21	0	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.238	.273	.238	.511	5	1	0	3	0	0
Jun Takenaka	22	15	14	0	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	6	.286	.267	.286	.552	4	0	0	0	1	0
Wally Yonamine	17	17	14	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	0	.214	.353	.214	.567	3	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroyasu Tanaka	22	10	8	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.250	.333	.250	.583	2	0	0	1	0	0
Fukuzo Yanagawa	15	14	13	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	.154	.214	.154	.368	2	0	0	0	0	0
Hisanobu Mizutani	7	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mikihiko Kuroki	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takeshi Honda	8	4	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shinichi Shikita	11	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Isao Sasaki	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kinya Maeoka	12	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shigetaka Nishio	24	11	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Toshitake Nakayama	29	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Toyohiko Aida	9	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1905	4952	4504	469	1123	158	26	107	438	68	55	307	715	.249	.299	.367	.667	1654	69	26	88	27	20

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Yosuke Terada	1B	123					.000
Larry Doby	1B	36					.000
Don Newcombe	1B	27					.000
Mamoru Zaitsu	1B	8					.000
Shinichi Eto	1B	5					.000
Tatsuhiko Ito	1B	3					.000
Toshitake Nakayama	1B	1					.000
Carlton Hanta	2B	89					.000
Morimichi Takagi	2B	81					.000
Mitsuo Imazu	2B	2					.000
Takeshi Honda	2B	2					.000
Masuho Maeda	3B	132					.000
Jun Takenaka	3B	7					.000
Carlton Hanta	3B	3					.000
Mitsuo Imazu	3B	2					.000
Shinichi Eto	C	104					.000
Tokio Takagi	C	38					.000
Shinichi Shikita	C	11					.000
Yoshimitsu Okano	C	10					.000
Isao Sasaki	C	2					.000
Taisuke Kobuchi	C	2					.000
Toshio Naka	OF	123					.000
Tatsuhiko Ito	OF	109					.000
Hideaki Homoto	OF	86					.000
Don Newcombe	OF	55					.000
Nobuyuki Kadooka	OF	53					.000
Shigeo Hasegawa	OF	51					.000
Shinichi Eto	OF	40					.000
Larry Doby	OF	34					.000
Mamoru Zaitsu	OF	22					.000
Hiroyasu Tanaka	OF	21					.000
Fukuzo Yanagawa	OF	10					.000
Kinya Maeoka	OF	10					.000
Toyohiko Aida	OF	7					.000
Rikio Kato	OF	4					.000
Hisanobu Mizutani	OF	3					.000
Taisuke Kobuchi	OF	3					.000
Tatsumi Yamanaka	OF	2					.000
Shigetaka Nishio	OF	2					.000
Mikihiko Kuroki	OF	2					.000
Wally Yonamine	OF	1					.000
Toshiharu Kamai	OF	1					.000
Mitsuo Imazu	OF	1					.000
Hiroo I	OF	1					.000
Hiroshi Gondo	P	61					.000
Minoru Kakimoto	P	60					.000
Nobuyuki Kadooka	P	53					.000
Yasuhiko Kawamura	P	35					.000
Toshitake Nakayama	P	28					.000
Eiji Bando	P	28					.000
Shigetaka Nishio	P	22					.000
Tatsumi Yamanaka	P	14					.000
Jun Takenaka	P	7					.000
Hisanobu Mizutani	P	4					.000
Saburo Takeya	P	1					.000
Don Newcombe	P	1					.000
Toshiharu Kamai	P	1					.000
Akiteru Kono	SS	107					.000
Mitsuo Imazu	SS	21					.000
Carlton Hanta	SS	15					.000
Taisuke Kobuchi	SS	8					.000
Hiroyasu Tanaka	SS	1					.000
Totals		1796	0	0	0	0	.000

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