Shosei Go
Taiwanese baseball player
Baseball player
| Shosei Go | |
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| Outfielder, Pitcher | |
| Born: Chinese and Japanese: 吳波; pinyin: Wu Bo; rōmaji: Go Ha (1916-06-28)June 28, 1916 Taiwan | |
| Died: June 7, 1987(1987-06-07) (aged 70) | |
Batted: Left Threw: Left | |
| Japanese Baseball League debut | |
| 1937, for the Tokyo Kyojin | |
| Last JBL/NPB appearance | |
| 1957, for the Mainichi Orions | |
| Career hitting statistics | |
| Batting average | .272 |
| Hits | 1,326 |
| Runs batted in | 389 |
| Stolen bases | 381 |
| Win–loss record | 15–7 |
| Earned run average | 3.48 |
| Strikeouts | 66 |
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As Player
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| Career highlights and awards | |
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| Member of the Japanese | |
 Baseball Hall of Fame | |
| Induction | 1995 (elected by the Special Committee) |
Shosei Go (Chinese: 吳昌征; pinyin: Wú Chāngzhēng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gô͘ Chhiong-cheng; Japanese: Go Shōsei; June 28, 1916 – June 7, 1987) was a Taiwanese two-way baseball player who played for the Tokyo Giants (1937–1943, now the Yomiuri Giants), Hanshin Tigers (1944–1949) and Mainichi Orions (1950–1957, now the Chiba Lotte Marines). Only 5-foot-6 and 140 pounds, he was nicknamed "The Human Locomotive" due to his speed. As a left-handed outfielder, he won two batting titles and a stolen base title.
As a pitcher, the bulk of his appearances were in 1946, when he went 14-6 with a 3.03 ERA and 16 complete games. Go also threw the first postwar no-hitter, against the Tokyo Senators in 1946.
Early life
Go, born Wu Bo (Chinese: 吳波, played on the Kano baseball team and participated in the National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament in 1935 and 1936. After graduating from Kagi, he signed with the Tokyo Giants.[1]
See also
References
- ^ Morris, Andrew (2011). Colonial Project, National Game: A History of Baseball in Taiwan. University of California Press.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference (Minors)
- Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
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| Preceded by | Japanese Baseball League MVP 1943 | Succeeded by |
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Members of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
- Matsutarō Shōriki (1959)
- Hiroshi Hiraoka (1959)
- Yukio Aoi (1959)
- Shin Hashido (1959)
- Kiyoshi Oshikawa (1959)
- Jiro Kuji (1959)
- Eiji Sawamura (1959)
- Iso Abe (1959)
- Victor Starffin (1960)
- Yutaka Ikeda (1962)
- Haruyasu Nakajima (1963)
- Tadashi Wakabayashi (1964)
- Masaru Kageura (1965)
- Tetsuharu Kawakami (1965)
- Tsunetaro Moriyama (1966)
- Kazuto Tsuruoka (1969)
- Shunichi Amachi (1970)
- Nobuaki Nidegawa (1970)
- Shuichi Ishimoto (1972)
- Sadayoshi Fujimoto (1974)
- Fumio Fujimura (1974)
- Hideo Fujimoto (1976)
- Shigeru Mizuhara (1977)
- Michio Nishizawa (1977)
- Kenjiro Matsuki (1978)
- Shinji Hamazaki (1978)
- Takehiko Bessho (1979)
- Hiroshi Ohshita (1980)
- Makoto Kozuru (1980)
- Shigeru Chiba (1980)
- Tokuji Iida (1981)
- Yoshiyuki Iwamoto (1981)
- Osamu Mihara (1983)
- Shinji Kirihara (1984)
- Shigeru Sugishita (1985)
- Katsumi Shiraishi (1985)
- Atsushi Aramaki (1985)
- Shigeo Nagashima (1988)
- Kaoru Bettou (1988)
- Masaichi Nagata (1988)
- Saburo Yokozawa (1988)
- Yukio Nishimoto (1988)
- Masaichi Kaneda (1988)
- Hidenosuke Shima (1989)
- Katsuya Nomura (1989)
- Jiro Noguchi (1989)
- Juzo Sanada (1990)
- Isao Harimoto (1990)
- Shigeru Makino (1991)
- Osamu Tsutsui (1991)
- Kichiro Shimaoka (1991)
- Tatsuro Hirooka (1992)
- Michinori Tsubouchi (1992)
- Masao Yoshida (1992)
- Yoshio Yoshida (1992)
- Kazuhisa Inao (1993)
- Minoru Murayama (1993)
- Sadaharu Oh (1994)
- Wally Yonamine (1994)
- Shosei Go (1995)
- Tadashi Sugiura (1995)
- Tokichiro Ishii (1995)
- Motoshi Fujita (1996)
- Sachio Kinugasa (1996)
- Katsuo Osugi (1997)
- Futoshi Nakanishi (1999)
- Yoshinori Hirose (1999)
- Takeshi Koba (1999)
- Sadao Kondo (1999)
- Tetsuya Yoneda (2000)
- Rikuo Nemoto (2001)
- Masaaki Koyama (2001)
- Kazuhiro Yamauchi (2002)
- Keishi Suzuki (2002)
- Yutaka Fukumoto (2002)
- Kenjiro Tamiya (2002)
- Lefty O'Doul (2002)
- Masaoka Shiki (2002)
- Toshiharu Ueda (2003)
- Junzo Sekine (2003)
- Horace Wilson (2003)
- Sakae Suzuka (2003)
- Akira Ogi (2004)
- Noboru Akiyama (2004)
- Choji Murata (2005)
- Masaaki Mori (2005)
- Masayori Shimura (2005)
- Hiromitsu Kadota (2006)
- Morimichi Takagi (2006)
- Hisashi Yamada (2006)
- Yasumitsu Toyoda (2006)
- Hiromori Kawashima (2006)
- Takao Kajimoto (2007)
- Reiichi Matsunaga (2007)
- Koji Yamamoto (2008)
- Tsuneo Horiuchi (2008)
- Tsutomu Wakamatsu (2009)
- Seiichi Shima (2008)
- Osamu Higashio (2010)
- Hiromitsu Ochiai (2011)
- Mutsuo Minagawa (2011)
- Manabu Kitabeppu (2012)
- Tsunemi Tsuda (2012)
- Yutaka Ohno (2013)
- Hideo Nomo (2014)
- Koji Akiyama (2014)
- Kazuhiro Sasaki (2014)
- Atsuya Furuta (2015)
- Kihachi Enomoto (2016)
- Kimiyasu Kudoh (2016)
- Masaki Saito (2016)
- Tsutomu Ito (2017)
- Masaji Hiramatsu (2017)
- Senichi Hoshino (2017)
- Hideki Matsui (2018)
- Tomoaki Kanemoto (2018)
- Kazuyoshi Tatsunami (2019)
- Hiroshi Gondoh (2019)
- Koichi Tabuchi (2020)
- Kazuo Sayama (2021)
- Katsuji Kawashima (2021)
- Shigeyoshi Matsumae (2022)
- Shingo Takatsu (2022)
- Masa Yamamoto (2022)
- Alex Ramírez (2023)
- Randy Bass (2023)
- Yūji Koseki (2023)
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