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1979 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes
1979 > Class Foreign > 1979 Japan Pacific League
Overall: 74-45
Scored 672 runs, Allowed 531 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 72-47
Affiliation: none or n/a
Manager: Yukio Nishimoto
Represented: Osaka, JP
Ballpark: n/a
Attendance: n/a
Other Years: 1978 / 1980
Team Roster
| Age | B | T | Ht | Wt | DoB | Birthplace | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Narihiro Abe | 32 | L | L | 5' 8.0" | 154 | Mar 27, 1947 | Iwate, JP | |||
| Shuzo Arita | 27 | R | R | 5' 8.0" | 176 | Sep 27, 1951 | Ube, Yamaguchi, JP | |||
| Chris Arnold | 31 | R | R | 5' 10.0" | 160 | Nov 6, 1947 | Long Beach, CA, US | |||
| Satomi Bando | 37 | R | R | 5' 11.0" | 185 | Jan 1, 1942 | Itano-gun, Tokushima, JP | |||
| Shiro Fujise | 25 | R | R | 5' 6.0" | 136 | Jul 2, 1953 | Ibaraki, Osaka, JP | |||
| Tokuichi Fukiishi | 26 | R | R | 5' 10.0" | 165 | Apr 2, 1953 | Hidaka-gun, Wakayama, JP | |||
| Yasuo Fukui | 26 | R | R | 5' 11.0" | 176 | Nov 12, 1952 | Okayama, JP | |||
| Koichi Hada | 26 | R | R | 5' 11.0" | 187 | Jun 19, 1953 | Amagasaki, Hyogo, JP | |||
| Masahiro Hayashi | 27 | R | R | 5' 8.0" | 167 | May 25, 1952 | Wakayama, JP | |||
| Mitsuyasu Hirano | 30 | R | R | 5' 11.0" | 180 | Apr 23, 1949 | Osaka, Osaka, JP | |||
| Takenori Ikebe | 35 | Jan 8, 1944 | ||||||||
| Takashi Imoto | 28 | Nov 21, 1950 | ||||||||
| Shigeru Ishiwata | 30 | Aug 12, 1948 | ||||||||
| Kazuhide Ishiyama | 28 | Dec 13, 1950 | ||||||||
| Masato Kagawa | 25 | Mar 27, 1954 | ||||||||
| Yasuo Kubo | 21 | Apr 8, 1958 | ||||||||
| Shigeru Kurihashi | 27 | Aug 10, 1951 | ||||||||
| Charlie Manuel | 35 | L | R | 6' 4.0" | 195 | Jan 4, 1944 | Northfork, WV, US | |||
| Tatsumi Murata | 26 | Jul 9, 1952 | ||||||||
| Yasunori Nagao | 29 | May 2, 1950 | ||||||||
| Masataka Nashida | 25 | Aug 4, 1953 | Hamada, Shimane, JP | |||||||
| Shunji Nishimura | 31 | May 21, 1948 | ||||||||
| Toru Ogawa | 33 | Aug 1, 1945 | ||||||||
| Koji Ota | 27 | Jan 23, 1952 | ||||||||
| Motokuni Sano | 21 | R | Mar 6, 1958 | Yokohama, JP | ||||||
| Kyosuke Sasaki | 29 | Dec 28, 1949 | ||||||||
| Fumio Sato | 26 | Apr 12, 1953 | ||||||||
| Kohei Shimamoto | 27 | Jan 11, 1952 | ||||||||
| Masataka Shirataki | 30 | Jan 11, 1949 | ||||||||
| Keishi Suzuki | 31 | Sep 28, 1947 | ||||||||
| Kenji Tachibana | 25 | Mar 8, 1954 | ||||||||
| Hiroaki Tani | 23 | Apr 7, 1956 | ||||||||
| Kinya Toki | 27 | Feb 12, 1952 | ||||||||
| Tetsuji Yamaguchi | 20 | Apr 17, 1959 | ||||||||
| Yutaka Yanagida | 27 | Aug 31, 1951 |
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