1963 Chunichi Dragons Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 80-57
Finished 2nd in the JPCL
Manager: Kiyoshi Sugiura (80-57)
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Ballpark: Nagoya Stadium

1963 Chunichi Dragons Roster

The Chunichi Dragons of the Japan Central League ended the 1963 season with a record of 80 wins and 57 losses, finishing second in the JPCL.

The Dragons tallied 529 runs and allowed 461 runs. Jim Marshall paced Chunichi with 28 home runs, and Shinichi Eto walloped 15 or more, too. Jim Marshall drove in 92 runs. Akiteru Kono led all regular batters by hitting .294. Minoru Kakimoto topped the squad with 21 wins, while Yasuhiko Kawamura and Tatsumi Yamanaka added 15 or more victories as well Minoru Kakimoto registered a 1.7 earned run average, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Members of the 1963 Chunichi Dragons who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Jim Marshall, Billy Klaus and Bob Nieman.

Kiyoshi Sugiura 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
Minoru Kakimoto	21	13	.618	1.70	48	28	16	12	3		260.0	208	58	49	14	42	8	83	4	0	0	989
Yasuhiko Kawamura	19	14	.576	2.68	56	21	23	8	1		245.0	191	89	73	21	89	7	119	4	0	2	996
Tatsumi Yamanaka	15	6	.714	2.83	45	26	3	7	3		197.3	164	67	62	17	44	2	88	2	0	2	782
Hiroshi Gondo	10	12	.455	3.83	45	31	10	9	0		220.7	205	105	94	29	79	2	88	4	1	1	922
Toshitake Nakayama	9	5	.643	2.48	41	22	10	6	3		152.7	125	50	42	6	31	3	50	3	0	0	608
Eiji Bando	3	1	.750	3.05	30	6	8	2	1		73.7	77	32	25	2	26	3	39	2	1	3	314
Shigetaka Nishio	2	2	.500	3.00	25	2	11	0	0		51.0	44	19	17	3	18	2	19	2	0	1	203
Takeshi Kato	1	0	1.000	1.00	4	0	2	0	0		9.0	7	3	1	0	1	0	4	0	0	0	35
Teruo Esaki	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0		1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Mitsuro Kondo	0	0		4.82	7	0	2	0	0		9.3	10	6	5	1	9	1	5	0	0	1	47
Hisanobu Mizutani	0	0		9.00	10	0	7	0	0		12.0	16	13	12	1	7	2	3	1	0	0	59
Nobuyuki Kadooka	0	4	.000	5.72	12	4	3	0	0		28.3	26	19	18	4	10	1	21	2	0	1	124
Totals	80	57	.584	2.84	324	140	96	44	11	0	1260.0	1074	461	398	98	356	31	519	24	2	11	5083

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	140	583	510	72	148	26	0	25	70	12	7	61	50	.290	.370	.488	.859	249	9	7	0	5	13
Jim Marshall	138	580	511	65	132	24	0	28	92	4	2	61	83	.258	.337	.470	.807	240	10	2	2	4	6
Toshio Naka	136	582	516	79	127	10	4	13	45	27	9	48	28	.246	.309	.357	.665	184	3	0	15	3	1
Morimichi Takagi	133	543	496	72	126	18	6	10	39	50	12	27	43	.254	.294	.375	.669	186	8	2	15	3	1
Akiteru Kono	114	434	388	42	114	27	0	14	54	9	4	28	52	.294	.349	.472	.821	183	13	6	10	2	0
Bob Nieman	110	387	355	39	107	27	0	13	53	1	1	31	41	.301	.357	.487	.844	173	14	0	0	1	4
Masuho Maeda	111	356	314	25	72	8	1	3	16	3	9	36	32	.229	.318	.290	.608	91	10	5	1	0	1
Toshiaki Ogawa	101	275	266	16	56	2	2	3	23	0	1	7	46	.211	.231	.267	.498	71	8	0	2	0	0
Billy Klaus	62	204	183	15	47	8	2	3	22	0	3	18	35	.257	.325	.372	.697	68	3	1	1	1	1
Hideaki Homoto	84	179	158	14	43	3	0	3	14	1	5	15	10	.272	.339	.348	.687	55	2	1	5	0	1
Tatsuhiko Ito	123	151	140	13	37	5	1	0	18	1	2	9	21	.264	.305	.314	.619	44	9	0	0	2	0
Mitsuo Imazu	101	130	119	10	21	2	2	0	7	1	1	5	10	.176	.206	.227	.433	27	1	0	4	2	0
Yasuhiko Kawamura	56	78	72	4	18	0	0	0	5	0	0	4	7	.250	.289	.250	.539	18	1	0	2	0	0
Hiroshi Gondo	49	83	76	8	18	5	0	3	8	0	0	4	12	.237	.275	.421	.696	32	2	0	3	0	0
Tatsumi Yamanaka	45	67	64	3	15	1	0	0	1	0	0	3	9	.234	.269	.250	.519	16	1	0	0	0	0
Toyohiko Aida	63	105	91	13	14	1	0	0	4	2	4	13	22	.154	.267	.165	.432	15	1	1	0	0	0
Yosuke Terada	60	57	56	3	10	3	0	1	9	0	0	1	15	.179	.193	.286	.479	16	0	0	0	0	0
Tokio Takagi	47	54	53	3	9	3	0	0	1	0	0	1	9	.170	.185	.226	.412	12	1	0	0	0	0
Fukuzo Yanagawa	31	57	57	5	9	2	0	1	2	0	0	0	15	.158	.158	.246	.404	14	0	0	0	0	0
Mamoru Zaitsu	40	46	40	2	8	1	0	0	4	0	0	6	7	.200	.304	.225	.529	9	0	0	0	0	1
Minoru Kakimoto	48	94	83	4	7	0	0	0	5	0	0	3	29	.084	.126	.084	.211	7	1	1	7	0	0
Toshitake Nakayama	42	49	44	5	6	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	12	.136	.191	.136	.328	6	0	0	2	0	0
Taisuke Kobuchi	8	7	7	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.286	.286	.286	.571	2	0	0	0	0	0
Takeshi Honda	5	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshimitsu Okano	14	12	9	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	5	.111	.333	.222	.556	2	0	0	0	0	1
Eiji Bando	31	25	22	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	7	.045	.125	.045	.170	1	1	0	1	0	0
Ikuo Shimano	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nobuyuki Kadooka	12	6	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shigetaka Nishio	25	10	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.100	.000	.100	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroyasu Tanaka	86	11	11	15	0	0	0	0	0	5	5	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takeshi Kato	7	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kinya Maeoka	16	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mitsuro Kondo	7	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2046	5175	4666	529	1149	177	18	120	494	116	67	390	613	.246	.307	.369	.676	1722	98	26	70	23	30

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Jim Marshall	1B	138					.000
Yosuke Terada	1B	25					.000
Morimichi Takagi	2B	131					.000
Fukuzo Yanagawa	2B	18					.000
Taisuke Kobuchi	2B	3					.000
Takeshi Honda	2B	1					.000
Masuho Maeda	3B	106					.000
Billy Klaus	3B	55					.000
Mitsuo Imazu	3B	6					.000
Takeshi Kato	3B	3					.000
Hisanobu Mizutani	3B	2					.000
Fukuzo Yanagawa	3B	1					.000
Toshiaki Ogawa	C	99					.000
Tokio Takagi	C	47					.000
Shinichi Eto	C	39					.000
Yoshimitsu Okano	C	4					.000
Taketoshi Nakamura	C	2					.000
Toshio Naka	OF	136					.000
Tatsuhiko Ito	OF	110					.000
Bob Nieman	OF	103					.000
Shinichi Eto	OF	102					.000
Hiroyasu Tanaka	OF	50					.000
Hideaki Homoto	OF	49					.000
Toyohiko Aida	OF	27					.000
Kinya Maeoka	OF	13					.000
Nobuyuki Kadooka	OF	12					.000
Mamoru Zaitsu	OF	8					.000
Billy Klaus	OF	7					.000
Hisanobu Mizutani	OF	3					.000
Teruo Esaki	OF	2					.000
Tsutomu Takahashi	OF	1					.000
Toshitake Nakayama	OF	1					.000
Eiji Bando	OF	1					.000
Yasuhiko Kawamura	P	56					.000
Minoru Kakimoto	P	48					.000
Tatsumi Yamanaka	P	45					.000
Hiroshi Gondo	P	45					.000
Toshitake Nakayama	P	41					.000
Eiji Bando	P	30					.000
Shigetaka Nishio	P	25					.000
Nobuyuki Kadooka	P	12					.000
Hisanobu Mizutani	P	10					.000
Mitsuro Kondo	P	7					.000
Takeshi Kato	P	4					.000
Teruo Esaki	P	1					.000
Akiteru Kono	SS	114					.000
Mitsuo Imazu	SS	87					.000
Morimichi Takagi	SS	1					.000
Taisuke Kobuchi	SS	1					.000
Totals		1832	0	0	0	0	.000

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