1969 Nankai Hawks Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 50-76
Finished 6th in the JPPL
Manager: Tokuji Iida (50-76)
Location: Osaka, Japan
Ballpark: Osaka Stadium

1969 Nankai Hawks Roster

The Nankai Hawks of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1969 season with a record of 50 wins and 76 losses, finishing sixth in the JPPL.

The Hawks tallied 409 runs, worst in the circuit, and allowed 530 runs, most in the league. Katsuya Nomura paced Nankai with 22 home runs and accounted for 52 RBI. Yoshinori Hirose topped batters with significant playing time with a .284 average. Kiyohiro Miura led the squad with 12 wins, while Sanshiro Nishioka earned a 2.44 ERA, leading pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Members of the 1969 Nankai Hawks who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Masanori Murakami, Lee Thomas and Don Blasingame.

Tokuji Iida 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
Kiyohiro Miura	12	14	.462	3.27	33	29	2	10	1		215.0	196	93	78	29	62	3	79	6	0	3	882
Sanshiro Nishioka	10	7	.588	2.44	29	24	2	9	1		162.3	133	53	44	6	50	2	70	2	0	2	657
Taisuke Watanabe	9	17	.346	3.54	36	30	2	10	4		193.3	171	82	76	27	60	0	79	5	1	2	785
Masanori Murakami	7	9	.438	4.54	31	14	10	3	0		119.0	139	64	60	19	32	1	47	3	0	0	513
Mutsuo Minagawa	5	14	.263	2.61	33	13	17	4	1		134.3	126	47	39	16	20	1	65	4	0	0	538
Yoshiro Izumi	3	1	.750	3.56	28	4	10	1	0		78.3	86	37	31	11	13	0	45	3	0	1	332
Toshihiro Hayashi	2	2	.500	5.30	19	3	3	0	0		52.7	65	36	31	8	11	0	23	1	0	1	233
Tadashi Sugiura	2	7	.222	4.13	30	5	17	1	0		65.3	68	33	30	8	16	1	33	3	0	0	268
Satoshi Takahashi	0	0		0.00	2	0	1	0	0		1.0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	5
Takuzo Ueda	0	0		3.27	6	0	4	0	0		11.0	12	6	4	1	2	0	10	0	0	0	46
Shiro Maeda	0	0		4.50	3	0	3	0	0		4.0	3	3	2	0	5	0	3	0	0	0	19
Shozo Nishimura	0	0		4.50	10	1	5	0	0		14.0	17	7	7	5	2	0	7	0	0	1	60
Akitada Niiyama	0	0		6.87	10	0	3	0	0		18.3	26	20	14	3	6	1	9	0	0	0	89
Kimihiro Sato	0	1	.000	4.99	22	1	6	0	0		39.7	46	24	22	6	7	1	17	3	0	0	171
Eizo Goda	0	4	.000	3.63	17	6	7	0	0		44.7	58	25	18	6	11	0	9	0	0	1	193
Totals	50	76	.397	3.56	309	130	92	38	7	0	1153.0	1147	530	456	145	298	11	496	30	1	11	4791

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	110	447	423	55	120	16	2	11	38	39	9	15	23	.284	.304	.409	.713	173	8	1	0	8	2
Yasuhiro Kunisada	127	499	448	44	118	22	1	9	49	4	3	46	35	.263	.335	.377	.713	169	12	3	1	1	1
Lee Thomas	109	426	395	34	104	8	0	12	50	2	2	23	31	.263	.300	.375	.675	148	9	1	0	7	0
Don Blasingame	104	409	365	46	102	10	1	6	19	5	2	27	35	.279	.332	.362	.693	132	5	2	14	1	0
Ikuo Shimano	119	412	380	38	101	12	2	6	28	21	6	23	58	.266	.310	.355	.666	135	11	2	6	1	0
Katsuya Nomura	106	434	388	44	95	7	0	22	52	1	1	39	51	.245	.318	.433	.751	168	21	4	0	3	7
Shozo Higuchi	95	329	299	26	78	8	0	0	14	1	3	20	25	.261	.314	.288	.601	86	2	3	7	0	1
Hiroshi Takahashi	88	258	235	18	60	7	3	1	19	5	0	15	41	.255	.307	.323	.630	76	7	3	4	1	0
Kenji Koike	98	327	286	19	58	8	2	2	25	2	2	36	53	.203	.294	.266	.560	76	3	2	1	2	2
Tsunemi Koizumi	74	189	177	16	49	2	1	5	24	1	2	7	18	.277	.307	.384	.691	68	7	2	0	3	1
Masaru Tomita	75	195	175	25	43	7	4	6	19	9	4	18	31	.246	.323	.434	.757	76	5	2	0	0	0
Toshio Yanagida	72	183	162	8	23	5	2	1	12	0	1	14	35	.142	.224	.216	.440	35	4	4	0	3	1
Mitsuru Fujiwara	55	122	114	8	22	4	1	2	11	1	0	4	16	.193	.230	.298	.528	34	2	2	0	2	2
Kiyohiro Miura	34	77	70	1	9	0	0	0	3	0	0	3	7	.129	.164	.129	.293	9	4	0	4	0	0
Tadao Yamamoto	18	27	27	3	7	1	0	0	2	2	0	0	5	.259	.259	.296	.556	8	0	0	0	0	0
Masanori Murakami	31	42	42	3	7	1	0	1	5	0	0	0	5	.167	.167	.262	.429	11	2	0	0	0	0
Nobuo Karasaki	40	31	28	9	6	2	0	0	1	2	4	2	8	.214	.267	.286	.552	8	0	0	1	0	0
Taisuke Watanabe	36	63	59	1	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	21	.085	.085	.119	.203	7	0	0	4	0	0
Yasumasa Takabatake	22	22	21	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	5	.190	.227	.190	.418	4	1	0	0	0	0
Sanshiro Nishioka	31	58	47	3	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	25	.085	.140	.085	.225	4	1	1	8	0	0
Toshihiro Hayashi	20	11	11	1	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	3	.273	.273	.455	.727	5	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshiro Izumi	28	24	19	2	3	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	5	.158	.158	.316	.474	6	0	0	5	0	0
Tamon Yamamoto	17	29	27	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	6	.111	.143	.111	.254	3	0	0	1	0	0
Shozo Nishimura	10	3	3	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.667	.667	.667	1.333	2	0	0	0	0	0
Mutsuo Minagawa	33	44	40	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	17	.050	.050	.050	.100	2	0	0	4	0	0
Tadashi Suzuki	7	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Akitada Niiyama	10	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Yukiyasu Nakamura	5	5	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	0	0	0
Masaaki Tasaka	10	8	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.167	.286	.167	.452	1	0	0	1	0	0
Haruyuki Yamada	7	7	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	0	0	0
Eizo Goda	17	9	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	1	0	2	0	0
Tadashi Sugiura	30	14	11	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.091	.167	.091	.258	1	0	0	2	0	0
Takuzo Ueda	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Teruhide Sakurai	4	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kimihiro Sato	22	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takeshi Shibata	8	11	11	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1679	4730	4303	409	1035	122	20	85	380	97	39	298	574	.241	.293	.337	.630	1452	105	32	65	32	17

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Lee Thomas	1B	106					.000
Hiroshi Takahashi	1B	37					.000
Sumio Watarai	1B	3					.000
Shozo Higuchi	1B	3					.000
Masayoshi Motoda	1B	1					.000
Don Blasingame	2B	98					.000
Yasuhiro Kunisada	2B	36					.000
Tadao Yamamoto	2B	4					.000
Teruhide Sakurai	2B	3					.000
Yukiyasu Nakamura	2B	3					.000
Sumio Watarai	2B	2					.000
Takuzo Ueda	2B	1					.000
Masaaki Tasaka	2B	1					.000
Yasuhiro Kunisada	3B	98					.000
Masaru Tomita	3B	50					.000
Tadao Yamamoto	3B	1					.000
Katsuya Nomura	C	104					.000
Hiroshi Takahashi	C	28					.000
Takeshi Shibata	C	2					.000
Ikuo Shimano	OF	116					.000
Yoshinori Hirose	OF	108					.000
Shozo Higuchi	OF	87					.000
Toshio Yanagida	OF	67					.000
Tsunemi Koizumi	OF	52					.000
Sumio Watarai	OF	27					.000
Nobuo Karasaki	OF	21					.000
Tamon Yamamoto	OF	12					.000
Hiroshi Takahashi	OF	9					.000
Haruyuki Yamada	OF	4					.000
Sanshiro Nishioka	OF	2					.000
Yasuo Hosoya	OF	2					.000
Takuzo Ueda	OF	1					.000
Kiyohiro Miura	OF	1					.000
Toshihiro Hayashi	OF	1					.000
Taisuke Watanabe	P	36					.000
Kiyohiro Miura	P	33					.000
Mutsuo Minagawa	P	33					.000
Masanori Murakami	P	31					.000
Tadashi Sugiura	P	30					.000
Sanshiro Nishioka	P	29					.000
Yoshiro Izumi	P	28					.000
Kimihiro Sato	P	22					.000
Toshihiro Hayashi	P	19					.000
Eizo Goda	P	17					.000
Shozo Nishimura	P	10					.000
Akitada Niiyama	P	10					.000
Takuzo Ueda	P	6					.000
Shiro Maeda	P	3					.000
Satoshi Takahashi	P	2					.000
Kenji Koike	SS	98					.000
Mitsuru Fujiwara	SS	51					.000
Masaaki Tasaka	SS	7					.000
Tadashi Suzuki	SS	7					.000
Masaru Tomita	SS	3					.000
Minoru Ichihara	SS	1					.000
Totals		1567	0	0	0	0	.000

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