1959 Nankai Hawks Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 88-42
Finished 1st in the JPPL
Manager: Kazuto Tsuruoka (88-42)
Location: Osaka, Japan
Ballpark: Osaka Stadium

1959 Nankai Hawks Roster

Japan Series - Nankai Hawks 4 games, Yomiuri Giants 0

The Nankai Hawks of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1959 season with a record of 88 wins and 42 losses, finishing first in the JPPL.

The Hawks scored 574 runs, most in the league. Nankai conceded 408 runs, the lowest total in the circuit. Katsuya Nomura led the squad with 21 home runs, while Yoshio Anabuki walloped 15 or more also. Katsuya Nomura accounted for 78 RBI. Kohei Sugiyama paced batters with significant playing time with a .323 average. Tadashi Sugiura earned 38 wins for the team, and Masatoshi Haraigawa added 15 or more victories as well Tadashi Sugiura registered a 1.41 earned run average, tops among qualifying pitchers. Kazuto Tsuruoka 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
Tadashi Sugiura	38	4	.905	1.41	69	35	26	19	9		371.3	245	67	58	17	35	2	336	11	0	2	1377
Masatoshi Haraigawa	18	7	.720	2.49	50	33	7	6	3		220.7	164	69	61	13	57	2	150	2	0	1	872
Mutsuo Minagawa	10	6	.625	1.92	51	14	16	0	0		163.7	129	52	35	7	26	2	91	4	1	2	634
John Sardinha	10	10	.500	3.37	36	28	5	4	1		144.3	143	72	54	9	55	1	72	6	1	7	634
Takashige Kanehiko	6	6	.500	3.09	43	8	18	0	0		102.0	93	45	35	8	19	1	54	2	1	2	417
Yoshio Tazawa	2	0	1.000	4.50	15	3	4	0	0		36.0	44	23	18	2	10	0	12	2	0	0	159
Kiyohiro Miura	2	3	.400	2.66	16	1	3	0	0		40.7	36	15	12	1	7	1	17	2	0	0	164
Yoshimi Ebara	1	0	1.000	0.00	1	0	1	0	0		2.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6
Takumi Nomo	1	2	.333	3.90	20	3	7	0	0		32.3	37	19	14	3	15	1	20	1	0	1	148
Yasuo Shirasaki	0	0		6.43	5	1	3	0	0		7.0	8	5	5	1	4	0	2	1	0	1	32
Motoji Takuwa	0	1	.000	3.00	1	1	0	0	0		3.0	4	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	14
Tsugunao Nagamitsu	0	1	.000	3.27	21	1	11	0	0		41.3	44	18	15	6	10	1	13	0	0	1	176
Minoru Azuma	0	1	.000	3.86	4	1	1	0	0		9.3	8	5	4	1	4	0	5	1	0	0	42
Goro Tomishima	0	1	.000	4.28	14	5	3	0	0		27.3	34	16	13	6	6	0	13	0	0	0	119
Totals	88	42	.677	2.44	346	134	105	29	13	0	1201.0	989	408	325	74	249	11	786	32	3	17	4794

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
Yoshinori Hirose	126	526	507	86	157	27	6	8	45	17	11	16	24	.310	.330	.434	.764	220	5	0	2	1	0
Kohei Sugiyama	115	451	418	67	135	20	7	9	67	5	2	25	38	.323	.360	.469	.829	196	3	1	4	3	3
Katsuya Nomura	132	526	472	71	124	18	5	21	78	7	5	45	98	.263	.327	.456	.783	215	18	3	0	6	2
Carlton Hanta	122	501	441	57	123	25	2	5	43	18	6	36	44	.279	.335	.379	.714	167	6	3	18	3	0
Yoshio Anabuki	127	446	408	51	117	20	5	15	66	0	4	33	75	.287	.339	.471	.809	192	11	1	0	4	1
Yosuke Terada	129	476	440	55	115	13	3	13	61	3	1	26	72	.261	.302	.393	.695	173	12	2	2	6	1
Shigeo Hasegawa	115	385	341	52	103	22	5	8	43	5	2	39	51	.302	.375	.466	.841	159	6	2	1	2	1
Isami Okamoto	120	425	380	44	99	21	3	10	51	5	4	33	40	.261	.321	.411	.732	156	5	2	8	2	2
Keiji Osawa	107	260	242	18	59	6	1	0	23	4	4	11	23	.244	.278	.277	.555	67	12	1	5	1	1
Nobushige Morishita	94	286	260	26	59	12	0	0	19	5	1	16	34	.227	.283	.273	.556	71	7	5	3	2	2
Teruo Shimabara	70	87	76	8	24	3	1	0	8	1	0	6	8	.316	.365	.382	.746	29	4	1	2	2	1
Tadashi Sugiura	70	134	120	9	22	3	0	0	8	0	0	9	38	.183	.240	.208	.449	25	3	0	5	0	0
Kazuo Kageyama	47	80	68	12	15	0	0	0	3	5	2	11	12	.221	.329	.221	.550	15	1	0	1	0	0
Ichiro Tanaka	51	79	71	6	11	3	0	0	5	0	0	7	18	.155	.231	.197	.428	14	2	0	1	0	1
John Sardinha	40	51	49	0	7	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	19	.143	.176	.143	.319	7	0	0	0	0	0
Masatoshi Haraigawa	51	76	61	3	6	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	20	.098	.127	.098	.225	6	0	1	13	0	0
Mutsuo Minagawa	51	45	42	2	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	23	.119	.119	.119	.238	5	1	0	3	0	0
Kiyohiro Miura	16	10	10	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.200	.200	.200	.400	2	0	0	0	0	0
Takashige Kanehiko	45	24	21	1	2	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	11	.095	.095	.286	.381	6	0	0	3	0	0
Yasuo Shirasaki	7	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Sumio Watarai	21	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	1	0	0	0	0
Takumi Nomo	21	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0	0
Yukiyoshi Yamamoto	19	7	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshio Tazawa	19	9	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	2	0	0
Hiroyuki Nakajima	4	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.125	.125	.125	.250	1	0	0	0	0	0
Goro Tomishima	15	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	1	0	0
Minoru Azuma	4	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Motoji Takuwa	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masahisa Fukuda	12	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kiyomi Shirano	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tsugunao Nagamitsu	21	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Kiyoshi Yamasaki	5	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Totals	1780	4931	4486	569	1191	194	38	90	525	75	43	316	673	.265	.315	.386	.701	1731	99	22	75	32	15

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Yosuke Terada	1B	129					.000
Isami Okamoto	1B	118					.000
Teruo Shimabara	1B	21					.000
Kohei Sugiyama	1B	8					.000
Sumio Watarai	1B	2					.000
Takumi Nomo	1B	1					.000
Carlton Hanta	2B	34					.000
Hiroyuki Nakajima	2B	4					.000
Kazuo Kageyama	2B	3					.000
Kiyomi Shirano	2B	2					.000
Keiji Osawa	2B	1					.000
Nobushige Morishita	3B	91					.000
Carlton Hanta	3B	55					.000
Kazuo Kageyama	3B	26					.000
Keiji Osawa	3B	3					.000
Kiyomi Shirano	3B	1					.000
Yoshinori Hirose	3B	1					.000
Katsuya Nomura	C	131					.000
Yoshio Anabuki	OF	121					.000
Kohei Sugiyama	OF	110					.000
Shigeo Hasegawa	OF	109					.000
Keiji Osawa	OF	92					.000
Yoshinori Hirose	OF	42					.000
Ichiro Tanaka	OF	22					.000
Sumio Watarai	OF	15					.000
Yukiyoshi Yamamoto	OF	10					.000
Masahisa Fukuda	OF	7					.000
John Sardinha	OF	4					.000
Yoshio Tazawa	OF	3					.000
Yasuo Shirasaki	OF	2					.000
Goro Tomishima	OF	1					.000
Tadashi Sugiura	OF	1					.000
Teruo Shimabara	OF	1					.000
Isami Okamoto	OF	1					.000
Kazuo Horii	OF	1					.000
Masatoshi Haraigawa	OF	1					.000
Tadashi Sugiura	P	69					.000
Mutsuo Minagawa	P	51					.000
Masatoshi Haraigawa	P	50					.000
Takashige Kanehiko	P	43					.000
John Sardinha	P	36					.000
Tsugunao Nagamitsu	P	21					.000
Takumi Nomo	P	20					.000
Kiyohiro Miura	P	16					.000
Yoshio Tazawa	P	15					.000
Goro Tomishima	P	14					.000
Yasuo Shirasaki	P	5					.000
Minoru Azuma	P	4					.000
Motoji Takuwa	P	1					.000
Yoshimi Ebara	P	1					.000
Yoshinori Hirose	SS	95					.000
Carlton Hanta	SS	57					.000
Nobushige Morishita	SS	7					.000
Kiyoshi Yamasaki	SS	5					.000
Totals		1684	0	0	0	0	.000

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