1979 Nippon Ham Fighters Roster
Team Record: 63-60
Finished 3rd in the JPPL
Manager: Keiji Ozawa (63-60)
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Ballpark: Korakuen Stadium
The Nippon Ham Fighters of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1979 season with a record of 63 wins and 60 losses, finishing third in the JPPL.
The Ham Fighters scored 592 runs and gave up 569 runs. Junichi Kashiwabara and Bobby Mitchell led Nippon with 22 home runs apiece., while Hideo Furuya and Sam Ewing walloped 15 or more also. Junichi Kashiwabara recorded 90 runs batted in. Hideo Furuya paced hitters with significant playing time by connecting at a .313 clip. Naoki Takahashi topped the squad with 20 wins and a team-best 2.76 earned run average, best among hurlers with significant time on the mound.
Members of the 1979 Nippon Ham Fighters who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Bobby Mitchell, Sam Ewing and Masanori Murakami.
Keiji Ozawa served as manager.Click on column headings to sort.
| Player | Bats | Throws | Birth Date | Height | Weight | Hometown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Koichi Eda | October 31, 1947 | |||||
| Sam Ewing | L | L | April 9, 1949 | 6'3" | 200 | Lewisburg, TN US |
| Hideo Furuya | R | R | August 1, 1955 | 5'8" | 182 | Futtsu, Chiba JP |
| Toshikazu Hattori | R | R | February 13, 1948 | 5'9" | 158 | Shimizu, Shizuoka JP |
| Koji Kagitani | L | R | July 2, 1950 | 5'5" | 143 | Kumage-gun, Yamaguchi JP |
| Junichi Kashiwabara | R | R | June 15, 1952 | 5'10" | 182 | Yashiro, Kumamoto JP |
| Toshio Kato | R | R | January 20, 1948 | 5'10" | 187 | Sendai, Miyagi JP |
| Shoji Kawahara | November 17, 1953 | |||||
| Toshimi Kubo | R | R | June 27, 1950 | 5'10" | 171 | Osaka, Osaka JP |
| Mikio Kudo | R | R | September 30, 1960 | 5'11" | 165 | Honjo, Akita JP |
| Shigekuni Mashiba | L | L | November 15, 1951 | 5'10" | 178 | Ozu, Shiga JP |
| Bobby Mitchell | R | R | October 22, 1943 | 6'3" | 185 | Norristown, PA US |
| Yoshinobu Miyamoto | R | R | July 26, 1950 | 6'0" | 158 | , Osaka JP |
| Yukinobu Miyamoto | R | R | June 3, 1945 | 6'0" | 190 | , Hyogo JP |
| Hideshi Murai | R | R | January 9, 1950 | 5'8" | 162 | Sapporo, Hokkaido JP |
| Masanori Murakami | L | L | May 6, 1944 | 6'0" | 180 | Kita Tsuru-gun, Yamanashi JP |
| Yozo Nagabuchi | L | L | May 3, 1942 | 5'6" | 143 | Saga, Saga JP |
| Katsutoshi Nakahara | R | R | November 30, 1944 | 5'8" | 165 | , Kagoshima JP |
| Kuniaki Nakamura | R | R | February 28, 1947 | 5'11" | 170 | , Oita JP |
| Noriaki Okabe | R | R | April 11, 1958 | 6'0" | 185 | Kita Tama-gun, Tokyo JP |
| Kazuhiko Okaji | L | L | September 9, 1951 | 5'9" | 170 | Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo JP |
| Tatsuo Omiya | R | R | June 19, 1954 | 5'10" | 185 | Okazaki, Aichi JP |
| Kazushi Saeki | R | R | June 5, 1952 | 5'11" | 180 | Miwa, Yamaguchi JP |
| Mikio Sendo | L | L | September 28, 1947 | 5'11" | 191 | Gifu, Gifu JP |
| Makoto Shimada | L | L | September 3, 1954 | 5'6" | 149 | Nakama, Fukuoka JP |
| Mitsuo Sugano | R | R | August 28, 1952 | 5'8" | 158 | Naka-gun, Ibaraki JP |
| Tomotaka Sugiyama | R | R | August 22, 1947 | 6'0" | 185 | , Shizuoka JP |
| Kazumi Takahashi | L | L | June 9, 1946 | 5'10" | 171 | Fuchu, Hiroshima JP |
| Naoki Takahashi | R | R | February 15, 1945 | 6'0" | 165 | Saeki, Oita JP |
| Nobuhiro Takashiro | R | R | May 27, 1954 | 5'6" | 162 | Yoshino-gun, Nara JP |
| Masaru Tomita | R | R | October 11, 1946 | 5'10" | 165 | , Osaka JP |
| Toshoku Uda | R | R | August 23, 1948 | 5'10" | 156 | , Tokyo JP |
| Satoru Yoshioka | L | R | April 14, 1949 | 5'8" | 151 | , Toyama JP |
| Hisataka Yukizawa | R | R | July 11, 1953 | 5'9" | 158 | Osaka, Osaka JP |
