1966 Nishitetsu Lions Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 75-55
Finished 2nd in the JPPL
Manager: Futoshi Nakanishi (75-55)
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Ballpark: Heiwadai Stadium

1966 Nishitetsu Lions Roster

The Nishitetsu Lions of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1966 season with a record of 75 wins and 55 losses, finishing second in the JPPL.

The Lions surrendered 354 runs, fewest in the league. Nishitetsu plated 426 runs. Jim Baumer paced the team with 23 home runs, while Tony Roig walloped 15 or more as well. Tony Roig recorded 56 runs batted in. Teruyuki Takakura topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .279. Tsutomu Tanaka recorded 23 wins on the mound for the squad, and Masaaki Ikenaga added 15 or more victories also Tadao Wako recorded a 1.54 ERA, tops among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Tony Roig and Jim Baumer both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Futoshi Nakanishi served as manager.

Click on column headings to sort.

Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Tsutomu Tanaka	23	12	.657	2.34	56	36	15	13	4		296.3	207	85	77	20	61	4	217	7	0	1	1141
Masaaki Ikenaga	15	14	.517	2.19	47	36	7	13	4		267.7	207	81	65	14	61	1	139	9	0	1	1060
Tadao Wako	12	3	.800	1.53	41	8	18	1	1		117.3	56	22	20	4	22	1	58	4	0	1	428
Kazuhisa Inao	11	10	.524	1.79	54	11	30	2	2		185.7	134	45	37	11	23	1	134	5	1	0	711
Yoshinobu Yoda	7	4	.636	2.45	36	20	6	2	1		128.3	120	40	35	6	28	1	75	2	1	0	518
Toshihiko Sei	5	6	.455	2.04	47	14	12	1	1		128.0	102	38	29	7	28	2	88	3	0	2	494
Yoshio Inoue	2	4	.333	2.84	29	11	5	0	0		66.7	64	26	21	5	14	1	33	3	0	0	277
Junichi Kaneko	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0		3.0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	12
Masashi Ozaki	0	0		3.86	3	0	2	0	0		2.3	6	4	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	16
Masaru Honma	0	2	.000	1.81	27	2	11	0	0		49.7	43	13	10	2	15	1	23	0	0	0	199
Totals	75	55	.577	2.13	341	138	106	32	13	0	1245.0	942	354	295	69	254	12	767	33	2	5	4856

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
Jim Baumer	134	533	480	57	125	23	0	23	53	4	2	39	77	.260	.326	.452	.778	217	10	8	6	0	1
Tony Roig	124	496	457	52	119	30	0	22	56	3	3	28	91	.260	.305	.470	.776	215	10	4	1	6	2
Teruyuki Takakura	121	428	398	43	111	20	3	11	36	7	2	24	36	.279	.323	.427	.750	170	7	3	1	2	3
Kazuhide Funada	135	484	427	41	95	10	1	14	43	19	8	21	73	.222	.265	.349	.614	149	8	5	27	4	0
Hiromi Wada	113	386	360	24	84	11	4	6	32	7	8	15	60	.233	.265	.336	.601	121	5	1	9	1	0
Francis Agcaoili	115	383	338	28	79	13	0	11	30	0	3	37	58	.234	.311	.370	.681	125	2	3	0	5	2
Yoji Tamatsukuri	124	359	320	29	72	9	2	4	26	4	9	28	45	.225	.288	.303	.591	97	3	1	8	2	2
Koji Nishiwaki	117	292	266	37	64	11	7	5	23	9	7	9	60	.241	.279	.391	.670	104	2	5	12	0	0
Koshiro Ito	105	301	257	24	59	15	1	6	32	3	5	39	40	.230	.333	.366	.699	94	2	2	1	2	3
Mamoru Miyoshi	114	203	192	19	42	6	2	4	11	11	7	10	44	.219	.257	.333	.591	64	1	0	1	0	1
Norifumi Kido	117	187	169	12	40	8	2	1	12	4	2	13	36	.237	.290	.325	.615	55	1	0	4	1	0
Yasuhiko Kawai	70	150	134	9	29	4	0	2	7	1	1	9	37	.216	.271	.291	.562	39	2	1	6	0	1
Goro Suzuki	65	145	139	12	29	1	2	4	7	3	1	5	45	.209	.241	.331	.572	46	0	1	0	0	1
Shoichi Shimosusaki	57	85	81	4	18	4	0	2	6	2	0	2	17	.222	.241	.346	.587	28	0	0	2	0	0
Tsutomu Tanaka	58	103	97	8	15	4	0	2	7	0	0	4	26	.155	.188	.258	.446	25	1	0	2	0	0
Futoshi Nakanishi	51	55	51	6	14	2	0	6	15	1	0	3	9	.275	.309	.667	.976	34	0	0	0	1	2
Seisaku Ueda	36	35	32	0	9	2	0	0	4	0	0	2	7	.281	.314	.344	.658	11	1	0	0	1	0
Hidekazu Yamamoto	42	43	39	3	9	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	4	.231	.286	.231	.516	9	0	0	1	0	0
Masaaki Ikenaga	47	92	75	6	8	1	1	1	1	0	0	7	26	.107	.183	.187	.370	14	0	0	10	0	0
Akira Ogi	36	30	28	2	6	0	0	1	2	1	0	1	7	.214	.241	.321	.563	9	0	0	1	0	0
Yoshinobu Yoda	37	32	25	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	12	.160	.192	.160	.352	4	0	0	6	0	0
Kazuhisa Inao	54	44	40	1	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	10	.075	.073	.100	.173	4	1	0	3	1	0
Sumio Watarai	25	11	11	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.182	.182	.182	.364	2	1	0	0	0	0
Takahiko Kanbara	5	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Masaru Honma	27	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	1	0	0
Shonan Hashino	4	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tatsuji Tanaka	17	10	9	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	.000	.100	.000	.100	0	0	1	0	0	0
Hiroyuki Ikenaga	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takashi Hamamura	13	10	9	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Tadao Wako	41	28	26	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	18	.000	.037	.000	.037	0	0	0	1	0	0
Toshihiko Sei	48	26	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	7	0	0
Yoshio Inoue	29	12	8	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	3	1	0
Shinya Shimada	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2083	4974	4497	426	1038	175	25	125	407	82	58	301	860	.231	.283	.364	.647	1638	57	35	114	27	18

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Francis Agcaoili	1B	94					.000
Tony Roig	1B	68					.000
Goro Suzuki	1B	43					.000
Jim Baumer	1B	9					.000
Futoshi Nakanishi	1B	3					.000
Jim Baumer	2B	134					.000
Akira Ogi	2B	29					.000
Kazuhide Funada	2B	8					.000
Hidekazu Yamamoto	2B	4					.000
Tatsuji Tanaka	2B	1					.000
Tony Roig	2B	1					.000
Norifumi Kido	3B	109					.000
Tony Roig	3B	106					.000
Hidekazu Yamamoto	3B	9					.000
Kazuhide Funada	3B	2					.000
Tatsuji Tanaka	3B	1					.000
Jim Baumer	3B	1					.000
Hiromi Wada	C	105					.000
Yasuhiko Kawai	C	68					.000
Sumio Watarai	C	7					.000
Teruyuki Takakura	OF	117					.000
Yoji Tamatsukuri	OF	113					.000
Koji Nishiwaki	OF	105					.000
Mamoru Miyoshi	OF	105					.000
Koshiro Ito	OF	96					.000
Shoichi Shimosusaki	OF	46					.000
Francis Agcaoili	OF	21					.000
Sumio Watarai	OF	15					.000
Hiromi Wada	OF	7					.000
Tsutomu Tanaka	OF	2					.000
Takahiko Kanbara	OF	2					.000
Takashi Hamamura	OF	2					.000
Yoshinobu Yoda	OF	1					.000
Tatsuji Tanaka	OF	1					.000
Goro Suzuki	OF	1					.000
Toshihiko Sei	OF	1					.000
Masashi Ozaki	OF	1					.000
Shonan Hashino	OF	1					.000
Kazuhide Funada	OF	1					.000
Tsutomu Tanaka	P	56					.000
Kazuhisa Inao	P	54					.000
Toshihiko Sei	P	47					.000
Masaaki Ikenaga	P	47					.000
Tadao Wako	P	41					.000
Yoshinobu Yoda	P	36					.000
Yoshio Inoue	P	29					.000
Masaru Honma	P	27					.000
Masashi Ozaki	P	3					.000
Junichi Kaneko	P	1					.000
Kazuhide Funada	SS	133					.000
Hidekazu Yamamoto	SS	27					.000
Takashi Hamamura	SS	9					.000
Tatsuji Tanaka	SS	8					.000
Tony Roig	SS	6					.000
Goro Suzuki	SS	1					.000
Norifumi Kido	SS	1					.000
Totals		1966	0	0	0	0	.000

Persons data from the Chadwick Baseball Bureau are Copyright Chadwick Baseball Bureau, and are made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License.