1961 Nankai Hawks Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 85-49
Finished 1st in the JPPL
Manager: Kazuto Tsuruoka (85-49)
Location: Osaka, Japan
Ballpark: Osaka Stadium

1961 Nankai Hawks Roster

The Nankai Hawks of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1961 season with a record of 85 wins and 49 losses, finishing first in the JPPL.

The Hawks scored 613 runs and surrendered 484 runs. Katsuya Nomura led Nankai with 29 home runs, and Kohei Sugiyama walloped 15 or more also. Katsuya Nomura accounted for 89 RBI. Kohei Sugiyama paced batters with significant playing time with a .321 average. Tadashi Sugiura topped the squad with 20 wins, while Joe Stanka and Mutsuo Minagawa, too added 15 or more wins, too Mutsuo Minagawa registered a 1.98 earned run average, best among regular hurlers.

Buddy Peterson and Joe Stanka both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

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	WP	BF
Tadashi Sugiura	20	9	.690	2.79	53	20	24	12	1		241.7	202	85	75	24	31	3	190	10	1	946
Mutsuo Minagawa	16	7	.696	1.98	51	4	25	1	0		177.3	142	53	39	11	38	10	119	4	0	695
Joe Stanka	15	11	.577	3.31	41	39	1	9	2		231.3	208	93	85	11	74	2	176	7	12	945
Chikara Morinaka	11	9	.550	3.02	56	25	12	2	0		188.0	154	74	63	15	47	3	140	2	1	747
Yoshio Tazawa	8	4	.667	2.86	37	20	7	1	1		113.3	110	48	36	8	24	3	59	0	2	472
Osamu Goto	5	6	.455	3.39	36	9	11	1	0		93.0	85	36	35	11	34	1	88	2	3	386
Goro Tomishima	4	0	1.000	2.67	18	1	5	0	0		27.0	30	8	8	2	6	0	10	1	0	114
Makito Masui	4	0	1.000	3.54	29	13	5	1	0		73.7	81	37	29	6	19	1	47	2	3	318
Masatoshi Haraigawa	2	1	.667	2.58	13	5	5	1	1		45.3	29	15	13	5	11	1	34	1	1	178
Noboru Yamashita	0	0		1.12	6	1	2	0	0		8.0	8	1	1	0	2	0	6	0	1	35
Tsugunao Nagamitsu	0	0		6.00	8	1	2	0	0		12.0	17	9	8	1	6	1	3	1	0	56
Shozo Nishimura	0	1	.000	2.25	1	1	0	0	0		4.0	4	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	17
Kiyohiro Miura	0	1	.000	4.62	24	1	13	0	0		39.0	42	24	20	5	13	0	27	3	1	174
Totals	85	49	.634	2.96	373	140	112	28	5	0	1253.7	1112	484	413	99	305	25	900	33	25	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
Yoshinori Hirose	135	567	537	82	159	33	7	6	46	42	6	25	45	.296	.332	.417	.749	224	9	4	0	1	2
Katsuya Nomura	136	559	494	70	146	17	2	29	89	8	2	54	71	.296	.367	.514	.881	254	17	5	0	6	10
Kohei Sugiyama	130	475	421	66	135	21	4	15	76	1	5	43	37	.321	.388	.496	.884	209	11	5	3	3	2
Nobushige Morishita	122	457	413	57	116	16	2	3	38	20	11	22	30	.281	.330	.351	.681	145	8	10	9	3	1
Yosuke Terada	126	426	399	36	102	16	1	8	54	2	1	18	68	.256	.290	.361	.651	144	14	2	5	2	0
Yoshio Anabuki	120	394	367	44	101	19	0	14	50	6	1	20	61	.275	.313	.441	.754	162	15	1	4	2	4
Buddy Peterson	103	383	336	50	98	21	1	12	42	3	2	35	36	.292	.369	.467	.836	157	10	8	1	3	5
Shigeo Hasegawa	118	269	229	49	60	6	0	7	22	11	5	36	49	.262	.363	.380	.743	87	3	1	2	1	2
Carlton Hanta	94	289	261	36	60	15	3	2	18	5	4	20	38	.230	.284	.333	.617	87	4	0	7	1	0
Kenji Koike	98	238	220	29	46	8	0	9	25	7	3	12	49	.209	.252	.368	.620	81	2	1	4	1	1
Teruo Shimabara	88	141	129	4	34	5	1	0	15	0	1	10	14	.264	.312	.318	.630	41	4	0	0	2	1
Keiji Osawa	110	209	190	18	31	5	0	1	19	2	1	13	30	.163	.220	.205	.425	39	3	1	4	1	2
Tamotsu Kimura	84	148	133	17	30	5	0	3	13	2	4	13	43	.226	.291	.331	.621	44	4	0	0	2	0
Masahisa Fukuda	104	148	136	14	26	9	2	2	20	0	2	7	59	.191	.234	.331	.565	45	2	1	3	1	0
Tadashi Sugiura	55	86	81	4	20	1	1	0	12	1	0	3	20	.247	.274	.284	.558	23	2	0	2	0	0
Joe Stanka	48	77	75	7	18	3	0	2	13	0	0	0	30	.240	.240	.360	.600	27	1	0	2	0	0
Takao Suzuki	32	37	33	3	10	1	0	2	4	0	0	4	7	.303	.378	.515	.894	17	1	0	0	0	0
Mutsuo Minagawa	51	61	54	5	10	3	0	2	7	0	0	1	26	.185	.200	.352	.552	19	1	0	6	0	0
Sumio Watarai	25	21	20	2	7	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.350	.350	.400	.750	8	0	0	1	0	0
Osamu Goto	40	27	27	0	7	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	6	.259	.259	.296	.556	8	1	0	0	0	0
Tadashi Suzuki	43	42	39	9	7	2	0	0	2	2	2	2	11	.179	.220	.231	.450	9	0	0	1	0	0
Chikara Morinaka	60	53	49	5	6	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	14	.122	.140	.143	.283	7	0	0	3	0	0
Kiyomi Shirano	7	11	11	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	.273	.273	.273	.545	3	2	0	0	0	0
Yoshio Tazawa	39	34	30	4	3	0	0	0	4	0	0	3	11	.100	.182	.100	.282	3	0	0	1	0	0
Makito Masui	32	17	16	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	.125	.176	.188	.364	3	1	0	0	0	0
Hidekazu Yamamoto	11	9	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.111	.111	.111	.222	1	0	0	0	0	0
Masatoshi Haraigawa	17	15	14	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	.071	.133	.071	.205	1	0	0	0	0	0
Goro Tomishima	27	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Kiyohiro Miura	28	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Shozo Nishimura	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tsugunao Nagamitsu	11	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Noboru Yamashita	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2103	5206	4734	613	1239	210	24	117	575	113	50	344	775	.262	.315	.390	.706	1848	115	39	60	29	30

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Yosuke Terada	1B	126					.000
Teruo Shimabara	1B	37					.000
Kohei Sugiyama	1B	15					.000
Kiyomi Shirano	1B	4					.000
Joe Stanka	1B	2					.000
Noboru Yamashita	1B	1					.000
Goro Tomishima	1B	1					.000
Katsuya Nomura	1B	1					.000
Kiyohiro Miura	1B	1					.000
Makito Masui	1B	1					.000
Masatoshi Haraigawa	1B	1					.000
Masahisa Fukuda	1B	1					.000
Nobushige Morishita	2B	82					.000
Carlton Hanta	2B	77					.000
Tadashi Suzuki	2B	7					.000
Kenji Koike	2B	5					.000
Kiyomi Shirano	2B	2					.000
Buddy Peterson	3B	91					.000
Nobushige Morishita	3B	53					.000
Kenji Koike	3B	19					.000
Tadashi Suzuki	3B	11					.000
Hidekazu Yamamoto	3B	3					.000
Katsuya Nomura	C	133					.000
Takao Suzuki	C	20					.000
Sumio Watarai	C	10					.000
Kohei Sugiyama	OF	122					.000
Yoshio Anabuki	OF	115					.000
Keiji Osawa	OF	101					.000
Masahisa Fukuda	OF	93					.000
Shigeo Hasegawa	OF	90					.000
Yoshinori Hirose	OF	65					.000
Tamotsu Kimura	OF	51					.000
Goro Tomishima	OF	8					.000
Joe Stanka	OF	5					.000
Chikara Morinaka	OF	4					.000
Osamu Goto	OF	4					.000
Tsugunao Nagamitsu	OF	3					.000
Kiyohiro Miura	OF	3					.000
Masatoshi Haraigawa	OF	3					.000
Yoshio Tazawa	OF	2					.000
Tadashi Sugiura	OF	2					.000
Makito Masui	OF	2					.000
Noboru Yamashita	OF	1					.000
Chikara Morinaka	P	56					.000
Tadashi Sugiura	P	53					.000
Mutsuo Minagawa	P	51					.000
Joe Stanka	P	41					.000
Yoshio Tazawa	P	37					.000
Osamu Goto	P	36					.000
Makito Masui	P	29					.000
Kiyohiro Miura	P	24					.000
Goro Tomishima	P	18					.000
Masatoshi Haraigawa	P	13					.000
Tsugunao Nagamitsu	P	8					.000
Noboru Yamashita	P	6					.000
Shozo Nishimura	P	1					.000
Yoshinori Hirose	SS	80					.000
Kenji Koike	SS	64					.000
Carlton Hanta	SS	15					.000
Tadashi Suzuki	SS	7					.000
Buddy Peterson	SS	5					.000
Totals		1922	0	0	0	0	.000

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