1968 Nankai Hawks Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 79-51
Finished 2nd in the JPPL
Manager: Kazuto Tsuruoka (79-51)
Location: Osaka, Japan
Ballpark: Osaka Stadium

1968 Nankai Hawks Roster

The Nankai Hawks of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1968 season with a record of 79 wins and 51 losses, finishing second in the JPPL.

The Hawks plated 548 runs and yielded 445 runs. Katsuya Nomura walloped 38 home runs for Nankai, while Marty Keough and Toshio Yanagida added 15 or more, too. Katsuya Nomura accounted for 99 RBI. Yoshinori Hirose paced hitters with significant playing time with a .294 average. Mutsuo Minagawa earned 31 wins on the mound for the squad, and Masanori Murakami contributed 15 or more victories also Mutsuo Minagawa registered a 1.61 earned run average, leading hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Members of the 1968 Nankai Hawks who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Marty Keough, Don Blasingame and Masanori Murakami.

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	BK	WP	BF
Mutsuo Minagawa	31	10	.756	1.61	56	38	14	27	8		352.3	256	75	63	18	63	7	193	9	0	2	1346
Masanori Murakami	18	4	.818	2.38	40	19	11	9	1		177.7	141	54	47	18	40	3	90	10	0	1	718
Toshihiro Hayashi	7	4	.636	3.65	25	19	1	2	0		98.7	87	45	40	17	26	1	40	5	2	0	397
Kiyohiro Miura	7	5	.583	2.78	37	16	7	3	2		126.3	105	42	39	11	39	4	58	6	0	2	504
Tadashi Sugiura	5	6	.455	2.68	41	7	21	0	0		111.0	100	39	33	8	32	6	53	4	0	1	457
Eizo Goda	5	9	.357	4.03	35	19	7	0	0		125.0	140	62	56	18	30	3	47	1	1	0	522
Taisuke Watanabe	2	2	.500	5.49	13	8	0	0	0		39.3	45	24	24	5	10	0	18	3	0	0	166
Shozo Nishimura	1	0	1.000	7.62	8	0	3	0	0		13.0	18	12	11	4	9	1	6	2	0	0	66
Sanshiro Nishioka	1	1	.500	3.68	7	3	2	0	0		22.0	22	9	9	4	5	0	9	0	0	0	94
Akitada Niiyama	1	3	.250	3.89	25	2	10	0	0		44.0	48	20	19	6	13	1	20	2	0	0	187
Takuzo Ueda	1	3	.250	5.46	23	2	4	0	0		28.0	36	19	17	2	10	1	18	0	0	1	128
Kunji Nagamoto	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0		1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Yoshiro Izumi	0	0		6.75	6	0	5	0	0		12.0	19	11	9	2	1	0	6	1	0	0	56
Satoshi Takahashi	0	0		12.00	2	0	0	0	0		3.0	4	4	4	0	2	0	1	1	0	0	16
Kimihiro Sato	0	4	.000	3.36	30	3	9	0	0		67.0	58	29	25	10	30	2	32	2	0	1	284
Totals	79	51	.608	2.92	349	136	95	41	11	0	1220.3	1079	445	396	123	310	29	591	46	3	8	4944

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
Don Blasingame	134	565	513	64	141	13	7	4	39	3	5	37	31	.275	.322	.351	.673	180	6	0	13	2	2
Yasuhiro Kunisada	134	523	474	51	131	21	6	8	54	5	6	38	39	.276	.332	.397	.729	188	16	4	2	5	1
Toshio Yanagida	131	502	454	58	125	14	1	15	68	11	10	31	67	.275	.329	.410	.738	186	14	8	3	6	2
Yoshinori Hirose	121	445	412	73	121	25	7	5	40	44	2	25	25	.294	.336	.425	.760	175	5	3	1	4	1
Katsuya Nomura	133	567	458	80	119	18	0	38	99	2	1	103	65	.260	.397	.548	.945	251	14	3	0	3	37
Marty Keough	134	496	450	42	104	21	2	17	46	9	4	33	83	.231	.287	.400	.687	180	9	4	4	5	7
Shozo Higuchi	116	342	320	40	92	7	2	5	32	5	1	12	20	.288	.315	.369	.684	118	1	2	6	2	0
Kenji Koike	136	488	399	45	77	15	1	13	44	3	0	70	80	.193	.312	.333	.645	133	5	2	10	7	7
Tsunemi Koizumi	81	197	178	19	45	11	2	6	27	1	1	16	31	.253	.313	.438	.751	78	1	0	2	1	0
Ikuo Shimano	91	139	124	21	28	2	2	4	12	14	3	10	26	.226	.281	.371	.652	46	1	0	4	1	0
Akira Owada	71	157	137	9	25	4	2	2	13	0	0	12	16	.182	.255	.285	.540	39	1	2	4	2	0
Hiroshi Takahashi	41	60	51	1	13	1	1	1	5	0	1	5	14	.255	.310	.373	.683	19	2	0	2	2	0
Mutsuo Minagawa	56	131	114	10	13	1	0	2	6	0	0	4	51	.114	.144	.175	.320	20	0	0	13	0	0
Kiyohiro Miura	38	38	36	2	9	2	0	0	3	0	0	0	11	.250	.250	.306	.556	11	0	0	2	0	0
Masanori Murakami	40	63	55	4	8	2	0	2	5	0	0	0	20	.145	.145	.291	.436	16	0	0	8	0	0
Tadao Yamamoto	29	28	25	2	6	0	0	1	2	2	0	1	9	.240	.321	.360	.681	9	0	2	0	0	0
Yoshio Anabuki	18	26	25	4	6	2	0	2	6	1	0	1	5	.240	.269	.560	.829	14	0	0	0	0	1
Motoaki Horigome	19	35	31	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	3	.161	.257	.161	.418	5	0	1	0	0	0
Yasumasa Takabatake	26	37	34	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	12	.147	.216	.147	.363	5	1	0	0	0	0
Kimihiro Sato	31	11	11	1	3	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	2	.273	.273	.636	.909	7	0	0	0	0	0
Yukiyasu Nakamura	26	22	19	2	3	1	0	0	2	1	2	1	3	.158	.273	.211	.483	4	0	2	0	0	0
Toshihiro Hayashi	27	35	30	3	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	10	.100	.156	.200	.356	6	0	0	3	0	0
Tadashi Suzuki	57	47	41	0	3	0	0	0	4	0	0	1	9	.073	.095	.073	.168	3	1	0	5	0	0
Tamon Yamamoto	19	19	14	1	2	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	3	.143	.294	.143	.437	2	0	2	2	0	0
Eizo Goda	38	35	28	1	2	0	0	0	4	0	0	2	13	.071	.133	.071	.205	2	2	0	5	0	0
Akitada Niiyama	25	8	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	1	0	0
Taisuke Watanabe	13	10	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	.000	.100	.000	.100	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takuzo Ueda	24	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shozo Nishimura	8	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sanshiro Nishioka	10	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nobuo Karasaki	34	6	6	10	0	0	0	0	0	7	1	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tadashi Sugiura	41	29	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	14	.000	.037	.000	.037	0	0	0	2	0	0
Yoshiro Izumi	7	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1909	5073	4491	548	1090	161	33	127	515	109	39	415	683	.243	.309	.378	.687	1698	79	35	92	40	58

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Marty Keough	1B	134					.000
Shozo Higuchi	1B	14					.000
Hiroshi Takahashi	1B	6					.000
Tsunemi Koizumi	1B	3					.000
Sumio Watarai	1B	2					.000
Eizo Goda	1B	2					.000
Takuzo Ueda	1B	1					.000
Yasumasa Takabatake	1B	1					.000
Sanshiro Nishioka	1B	1					.000
Kiyohiro Miura	1B	1					.000
Don Blasingame	2B	133					.000
Tadashi Suzuki	2B	19					.000
Tadao Yamamoto	2B	5					.000
Yukiyasu Nakamura	2B	5					.000
Masaaki Tasaka	2B	1					.000
Sanshiro Nishioka	2B	1					.000
Yasuhiro Kunisada	2B	1					.000
Nobuo Karasaki	2B	1					.000
Yasuhiro Kunisada	3B	133					.000
Tadashi Suzuki	3B	21					.000
Tadao Yamamoto	3B	6					.000
Yukiyasu Nakamura	3B	1					.000
Katsuya Nomura	C	133					.000
Hiroshi Takahashi	C	6					.000
Takao Suzuki	C	1					.000
Takeshi Shibata	C	1					.000
Toshio Yanagida	OF	129					.000
Yoshinori Hirose	OF	118					.000
Shozo Higuchi	OF	100					.000
Ikuo Shimano	OF	85					.000
Sumio Watarai	OF	63					.000
Tsunemi Koizumi	OF	60					.000
Akira Owada	OF	46					.000
Motoaki Horigome	OF	12					.000
Yasumasa Takabatake	OF	10					.000
Nobuo Karasaki	OF	9					.000
Yoshio Anabuki	OF	8					.000
Tamon Yamamoto	OF	5					.000
Toshihiro Hayashi	OF	2					.000
Kimihiro Sato	OF	1					.000
Yukiyasu Nakamura	OF	1					.000
Yoshiro Izumi	OF	1					.000
Eizo Goda	OF	1					.000
Mutsuo Minagawa	P	56					.000
Tadashi Sugiura	P	41					.000
Masanori Murakami	P	40					.000
Kiyohiro Miura	P	37					.000
Eizo Goda	P	35					.000
Kimihiro Sato	P	30					.000
Akitada Niiyama	P	25					.000
Toshihiro Hayashi	P	25					.000
Takuzo Ueda	P	23					.000
Taisuke Watanabe	P	13					.000
Shozo Nishimura	P	8					.000
Sanshiro Nishioka	P	7					.000
Yoshiro Izumi	P	6					.000
Satoshi Takahashi	P	2					.000
Kunji Nagamoto	P	1					.000
Kenji Koike	SS	136					.000
Tadashi Suzuki	SS	11					.000
Tadao Yamamoto	SS	2					.000
Totals		1782	0	0	0	0	.000

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