1966 Nankai Hawks Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 79-51
Finished 1st in the JPPL
Manager: Kazuto Tsuruoka (79-51)
Location: Osaka, Japan
Ballpark: Osaka Stadium

1966 Nankai Hawks Roster

The Nankai Hawks of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1966 season with a record of 79 wins and 51 losses, finishing first in the JPPL.

The Hawks plated 477 runs and surrendered 394 runs. Katsuya Nomura walloped 34 home runs for Nankai, while Kent Hadley swatted 15 or more, too. Katsuya Nomura accounted for 97 RBI and topped hitters with significant playing time with a .312 average. Mutsuo Minagawa led the team with 18 wins, and Kiyohiro Miura and Taisuke Watanabe added 15 or more victories also Mutsuo Minagawa and Taisuke Watanabe registered a 2.12 earned run average, leading regular hurlers.

Kent Hadley and Masanori Murakami 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
Mutsuo Minagawa	18	7	.720	2.12	46	31	10	11	6		212.0	188	63	50	20	34	2	109	8	4	837
Taisuke Watanabe	16	7	.696	2.12	42	34	5	12	8		233.7	191	64	55	19	42	0	148	4	2	917
Kiyohiro Miura	15	8	.652	2.70	45	29	10	6	0		203.3	188	71	61	10	65	1	85	7	1	848
Eizo Goda	10	1	.909	2.35	32	8	14	1	1		103.3	86	28	27	8	19	2	55	4	0	400
Akitada Niiyama	7	5	.583	2.25	39	4	16	0	0		104.0	79	34	26	9	28	3	47	2	0	403
Masanori Murakami	6	4	.600	3.08	46	2	13	0	0		96.3	80	34	33	10	25	1	66	8	1	387
Chikara Morinaka	5	10	.333	3.63	34	17	6	2	1		121.3	112	55	49	17	32	3	79	6	0	494
Tadashi Sugiura	2	4	.333	2.47	27	0	22	0	0		51.0	42	16	14	6	3	0	39	0	0	191
Toshihiro Hayashi	0	0		2.08	4	1	1	0	0		8.7	7	2	2	0	2	0	6	1	0	36
Kunji Nagamoto	0	0		3.68	4	0	1	0	0		7.3	7	3	3	0	4	0	2	2	0	33
Kenjiro Maki	0	2	.000	3.86	3	1	1	0	0		7.0	8	4	3	0	4	0	5	0	0	34
Eiichiro Takahashi	0	3	.000	4.59	14	6	2	0	0		33.3	32	20	17	4	17	0	9	0	0	144
Totals	79	51	.608	2.59	336	133	101	32	16	0	1181.3	1020	394	340	103	275	12	650	42	8	4724

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
Katsuya Nomura	133	556	474	82	148	19	0	34	97	8	1	71	79	.312	.406	.568	.974	269	12	7	0	4	13
Kent Hadley	127	487	438	44	122	16	1	18	53	3	1	36	89	.279	.340	.443	.782	194	9	6	4	3	1
Yasuhiro Kunisada	130	475	436	49	115	16	3	7	39	6	3	34	44	.264	.320	.362	.682	158	6	3	0	2	4
Jack Bloomfield	113	408	350	50	103	16	2	6	33	2	1	43	49	.294	.376	.403	.778	141	10	5	6	4	0
Yoshinori Hirose	110	395	376	49	98	17	6	12	39	28	5	16	33	.261	.293	.434	.726	163	3	1	2	0	1
Motoaki Horigome	128	438	414	38	94	15	3	9	40	9	9	17	58	.227	.260	.343	.603	142	3	2	3	2	1
Kenji Koike	132	504	436	43	94	13	2	7	48	6	8	59	70	.216	.312	.303	.615	132	11	3	4	2	3
Shozo Higuchi	102	295	268	23	71	9	1	1	17	3	1	18	16	.265	.312	.317	.630	85	0	1	7	1	0
Kohei Sugiyama	74	154	146	15	39	5	0	5	22	0	0	6	13	.267	.294	.404	.698	59	4	0	1	1	1
Yoshio Anabuki	76	139	130	13	34	4	0	6	22	0	1	3	19	.262	.279	.431	.710	56	8	1	3	2	1
Hiroyuki Nakajima	86	155	142	14	29	8	0	2	5	4	0	12	28	.204	.266	.303	.569	43	1	0	1	0	0
Nobushige Morishita	92	140	125	11	25	7	0	0	9	1	1	12	7	.200	.268	.256	.524	32	1	0	2	1	0
Tamon Yamamoto	59	104	97	7	22	0	0	0	1	2	1	4	17	.227	.265	.227	.492	22	1	1	2	0	0
Nobuo Karasaki	88	73	65	17	13	2	0	0	3	12	4	5	25	.200	.268	.231	.498	15	0	1	2	0	0
Noboru Inoue	54	95	88	5	12	2	0	0	2	0	0	6	15	.136	.189	.159	.349	14	3	0	0	1	1
Tadashi Suzuki	43	67	61	3	10	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	13	.164	.190	.164	.354	10	0	0	4	0	0
Eizo Goda	34	29	28	1	7	2	0	0	3	0	0	0	8	.250	.250	.321	.571	9	0	0	1	0	0
Kiyohiro Miura	53	64	57	1	7	1	0	0	3	1	0	3	20	.123	.180	.140	.321	8	1	1	3	0	0
Taisuke Watanabe	47	81	65	4	7	0	1	0	5	0	0	3	22	.108	.147	.138	.286	9	2	0	13	0	0
Mutsuo Minagawa	47	68	58	4	6	2	0	0	5	0	0	3	22	.103	.159	.138	.297	8	0	1	5	1	0
Kazushi Sakaguchi	25	14	13	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.385	.429	.385	.813	5	0	0	0	0	0
Masanori Murakami	46	22	20	1	5	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.400	.650	8	0	0	2	0	0
Chikara Morinaka	36	31	26	0	3	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	10	.115	.115	.231	.346	6	0	0	5	0	0
Akitada Niiyama	41	25	24	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.083	.083	.083	.167	2	1	0	1	0	0
Hiroshi Takahashi	31	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Tsunemi Koizumi	17	10	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.100	.100	.100	.200	1	0	0	0	0	0
Tatsuhiko Tanaka	2	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Eiichiro Takahashi	19	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Toshihiro Hayashi	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Tadashi Sugiura	28	9	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Kenjiro Maki	5	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kunji Nagamoto	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masumi Agata	4	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1992	4858	4374	477	1073	155	20	108	452	85	36	354	679	.245	.305	.364	.669	1592	77	33	73	24	26

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Kent Hadley	1B	127					.000
Kazushi Sakaguchi	1B	13					.000
Tsunemi Koizumi	1B	9					.000
Kohei Sugiyama	1B	8					.000
Shozo Higuchi	1B	7					.000
Noboru Inoue	1B	1					.000
Jack Bloomfield	2B	102					.000
Yasuhiro Kunisada	2B	80					.000
Nobushige Morishita	2B	8					.000
Tatsuhiko Tanaka	2B	2					.000
Tadashi Suzuki	2B	2					.000
Hiroshi Takahashi	2B	1					.000
Yasuhiro Kunisada	3B	96					.000
Nobushige Morishita	3B	80					.000
Tadashi Suzuki	3B	24					.000
Katsuya Nomura	C	133					.000
Hiroshi Takahashi	C	1					.000
Motoaki Horigome	OF	124					.000
Yoshinori Hirose	OF	98					.000
Shozo Higuchi	OF	82					.000
Hiroyuki Nakajima	OF	75					.000
Nobuo Karasaki	OF	72					.000
Yoshio Anabuki	OF	48					.000
Kohei Sugiyama	OF	38					.000
Tamon Yamamoto	OF	32					.000
Hiroshi Takahashi	OF	26					.000
Noboru Inoue	OF	25					.000
Kazushi Sakaguchi	OF	9					.000
Kiyohiro Miura	OF	8					.000
Takeshi Shibata	OF	7					.000
Taisuke Watanabe	OF	5					.000
Eiichiro Takahashi	OF	5					.000
Kunihiro Fujita	OF	4					.000
Masumi Agata	OF	3					.000
Akitada Niiyama	OF	2					.000
Kunji Nagamoto	OF	2					.000
Chikara Morinaka	OF	2					.000
Kenjiro Maki	OF	2					.000
Tsunemi Koizumi	OF	2					.000
Eizo Goda	OF	2					.000
Takao Suzuki	OF	1					.000
Tadashi Sugiura	OF	1					.000
Mutsuo Minagawa	OF	1					.000
Masanori Murakami	P	46					.000
Mutsuo Minagawa	P	46					.000
Kiyohiro Miura	P	45					.000
Taisuke Watanabe	P	42					.000
Akitada Niiyama	P	39					.000
Chikara Morinaka	P	34					.000
Eizo Goda	P	32					.000
Tadashi Sugiura	P	27					.000
Eiichiro Takahashi	P	14					.000
Kunji Nagamoto	P	4					.000
Toshihiro Hayashi	P	4					.000
Kenjiro Maki	P	3					.000
Kenji Koike	SS	132					.000
Tadashi Suzuki	SS	1					.000
Nobushige Morishita	SS	1					.000
Totals		1840	0	0	0	0	.000

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