Hideo Fujimoto

Japanese baseball player

For the Japanese wrestler, see Hideo Fujimoto (wrestler).

Baseball player

Hideo Fujimoto

Hideo Fujimoto

Yomiuri Giants – No. 23
Pitcher, Outfielder
Born: Lee Pal-yong
(1918-05-10)May 10, 1918
Busan, Korea
Died: April 26, 1997(1997-04-26) (aged 78)
Japan

Batted: Right

Threw: Right

JBL debut
1942, for the Tokyo Kyojin
Last NPB appearance
1955, for the Yomiuri Giants
JBL/NPB career pitching statistics
Win–loss| 200–87
Earned run average| 1.90
Shutouts| 63
Innings pitched| 2,628.1
Strikeouts| 1,177
Winning percentage| .697
Career statistics
Batting average| .245
Hits| 312
Home runs| 15
Run batted in| 151
Teams
As player

* Tokyo Kyojin (1942-1944, 1946)
* Chunichi Dragons (1947)
* Yomiuri Giants (1948-1955)

As manager

* Tokyo Kyojin (1944, 1946)

Career highlights and awards

* Japanese Pitching Triple Crown (1943)
* Eiji Sawamura Award (1949)
* 3 ERA titles (1943, 1946, 1949)
* 2x All-Star
* Pitched a perfect game on June 28, 1950
* Pitched two no-hitters

Member of the Japanese
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction| 1976

Hideo Fujimoto (藤本 英雄, Fujimoto Hideo) (also known as Hideo Nakagami) (May 10, 1918 – April 26, 1997) was a Japanese baseball pitcher. He holds the Japanese records for lowest career ERA (1.90) and seasonal ERA (0.73), as well as best all-time winning percentage (.697). During his career, which spanned the one-league and two-league era, he played for the Tokyo Kyojin/Yomiuri Giants and the Chunichi Dragons. He was the player-manager of the Giants in 1944 and part of 1946 (the league cancelled all games in 1945 because of the Pacific War).

## Biography

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Fujimoto, born as Lee Pal-ryong, was born in Busan, Korea which was part of Japanese Empire at that time, moving to Japan at age eight. He attended Shimonoseki Shogyo High School and Meiji University.[1]

In 1943, he enjoyed one of the greatest seasons ever by a pitcher in Japan, winning the pitching triple crown. He won 34 games for the Kyojin, leading the league in wins, complete games (39), innings (432+2⁄3) and strikeouts (253). He threw a Japanese-record 19 shutouts and set the single-season mark for ERA at 0.73. In May 1943 he also pitched his first no-hitter, defeating Nagoya. Between August and September he threw a record six straight shutouts, going 61+2⁄3 innings without allowing a run, and 100 innings without allowing an earned run.[citation needed]

In 1944, in addition to pitching and managing, Nakagami occasionally played outfield. (He also spent significant time in the outfield in 1948.) Nakagami was a good hitter for someone who primarily played pitcher, hitting .245 with 15 career home runs (including 7 round-trippers in 1950).[1] In 1946, Nakagami led the Japanese Baseball League in earned run average, with a mark of 2.11. Nakagami played for the Chunichi Dragons for one season in 1947, winning 17 games with a 1.83 ERA and 27 complete games. In 1949, Nakagami went 24-7 with a 1.94 ERA and 29 complete games, winning the ERA title and the Eiji Sawamura Award.

At Aomori Stadium, in 1950 he pitched the first perfect game in NPB history.[citation needed] He was the winning pitcher in games 1 and 5 (the clinching game) in the 1951 Japan Series, as the Giants beats the Nankai Hawks 4-games-to-1. He picked up a win the 1952 Japan Series (as well as hitting a home run) as the Giants were again champions, defeating the Hawks 4-games-to-2. Nakagami won another game in the 1953 Japan Series, as the Giants defeated the Hawks for the championship for the third year in a row.

After his playing career, he coached for the Giants and managed in the Japanese minor leagues, Later, he managed in the industrial leagues. He also worked as the Los Angeles correspondent for Yomiuri Shimbun.[citation needed]

Fujimoto/Nakagami was elected to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976.

## References

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1. ^ a b "Hideo Fujimoto," Baseball-Reference.com. Accessed April 2, 2015.

## External links

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* Career statistics from Baseball Reference (Minors)

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Eiji Sawamura Award

* 1947: Bessho
* 1948: Nakao
* 1949: Fujimoto
* 1950: Sanada
* 1951: Sugishita
* 1952: Sugishita
* 1953: Otomo
* 1954: Sugishita
* 1955: Bessho
* 1956: Kaneda
* 1957: Kaneda
* 1958: Kaneda
* 1959: Murayama
* 1960: Horimoto
* 1961: Gondoh
* 1962: Koyama
* 1963: Ito
* 1964: Bacque
* 1965: Murayama
* 1966: Murayama & Horiuchi
* 1967: Ogawa
* 1968: Enatsu
* 1969: Kazu. Takahashi
* 1970: Hiramatsu
* 1971: Not Awarded
* 1972: Horiuchi
* 1973: Kazu. Takahashi
* 1974: Hoshino
* 1975: Sotokoba
* 1976: Ikegaya
* 1977: Kobayashi
* 1978: Matsuoka
* 1979: Kobayashi
* 1980: Not Awarded
* 1981: Nishimoto
* 1982: Kitabeppu
* 1983: Endo
* 1984: Not Awarded
* 1985: Komatsu
* 1986: Kitabeppu
* 1987: Kuwata
* 1988: Yut. Ohno
* 1989: M. Saito
* 1990: Nomo
* 1991: Sasaoka
* 1992: Take. Ishii
* 1993: Imanaka
* 1994: M. Yamamoto
* 1995: M. Saito
* 1996: M. Saito
* 1997: Nishiguchi
* 1998: Kawasaki
* 1999: Uehara
* 2000: Not Awarded
* 2001: Matsuzaka
* 2002: Uehara
* 2003: Igawa & K. Saito
* 2004: Kawakami
* 2005: Sugiuchi
* 2006: K. Saito
* 2007: Darvish
* 2008: Iwakuma
* 2009: Wakui
* 2010: Maeda
* 2011: Tanaka
* 2012: Settsu
* 2013: Tanaka
* 2014: Kaneko
* 2015: Maeda
* 2016: Johnson
* 2017: Sugano
* 2018: Sugano
* 2019: Not Awarded
* 2020: Yud. Ohno
* 2021: Y. Yamamoto
* 2022: Y. Yamamoto
* 2023: Y. Yamamoto
* 2024: Not Awarded

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Yomiuri Giants managers

Great Japan Tokyo Baseball Club (1934–1935)|

* Miyake
* Asanuma

Japanese Professional Baseball (1936–1949)|

* S. Fujimoto
* Nakajima
* H. Fujimoto
* Nakajima
* Mihara

Nippon Professional Baseball (1950–present)|

* Mizuhara
* Kawakami
* Nagashima
* Fujita
* Oh
* Fujita
* Nagashima
* Hara
* Horiuchi
* Hara
* Takahashi
* Hara
* Abe

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Members of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame

1950s inductees|

* Matsutarō Shōriki (1959)
* Hiroshi Hiraoka (1959)
* Yukio Aoi (1959)
* Shin Hashido (1959)
* Kiyoshi Oshikawa (1959)
* Jiro Kuji (1959)
* Eiji Sawamura (1959)
* Iso Abe (1959)

1960s inductees|

* Victor Starffin (1960)
* Yutaka Ikeda (1962)
* Haruyasu Nakajima (1963)
* Tadashi Wakabayashi (1964)
* Masaru Kageura (1965)
* Tetsuharu Kawakami (1965)
* Tsunetaro Moriyama (1966)
* Kazuto Tsuruoka (1969)

1970s inductees|

* 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)

1980s inductees|

* 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)
* Takeo Akuta (1988)
* 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)

1990s inductees|

* 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)

2000s inductees|

* 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)

2010s inductees|

* 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)

2020s inductees|

* 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)
* Ichiro Suzuki (2025)
* Hitoki Iwase (2025)
* Masayuki Kakefu (2025)

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