1955 Nankai Hawks

1955 > Class Foreign > 1955 Japan Pacific League
Overall: 99-41
Scored 606 runs, Allowed 445 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 89-51

Affiliation: none or n/a
Manager: Kazuto Tsuruoka
Represented: Osaka, JP
Ballpark: n/a
Attendance: n/a
Other Years: 1954 / 1956

Team Roster

Bold indicates they played in the majors

	Age	B	T	Ht	Wt	DoB	Birthplace
Yasuhiro Fukami	35	R	R	5' 8.0"	160	Nov 26, 1919	Nogata, Fukuoka, JP
Hisami Haijima	20	R	R	5' 10.0"	176	Nov 20, 1934	Saitama, JP
Kazuo Horii	31					Dec 12, 1923
Tokuji Iida	31					Apr 6, 1924
Shigeya Iijima	36					Oct 11, 1918
Kazuo Kageyama	28					Jan 16, 1927
Tadasuke Kiduka	31					Apr 23, 1924
Shinichi Komukata	21					Dec 17, 1933
Hideo Kotsuji	21					Aug 22, 1933
Sadao Kuroki	20					Apr 24, 1935
Hiroshi Maruko	22					Mar 22, 1933
Jun Matsui	30					May 2, 1925
Mutsuo Minagawa	19					Jul 3, 1935
Hiroshi Minohara	25					Sep 25, 1929
Nobuyasu Morishita	21					Sep 4, 1933
Hiroshi Nakahara	31					Aug 29, 1923	Gifu, Gifu, JP
Taisei Nakamura	19					Jul 18, 1935
Nobuo Nakatani	35					May 4, 1920
Tokumi Nomo	24					Dec 13, 1930
Masaharu Obata	21					Apr 3, 1934
Taketoshi Ogami	22					Nov 1, 1932
Isami Okamoto	24					Feb 26, 1931	Kyoto, Kyoto, JP
Takeshi Ota	19					Aug 6, 1935
Yuki Oto	23					Apr 1, 1932
Shigeo Sato	23					Oct 22, 1931
Teruo Shimabara	28					Feb 2, 1927
Kohei Sugiyama	27					Aug 7, 1927
Motoji Takuwa	19					Jul 18, 1935
Ichiro Tanaka	23					Jun 20, 1932
Yoshio Tazawa	18					Aug 28, 1936
Ichiro Togawa	20					Apr 2, 1935
Keizo Tsutsui	32					Jan 1, 1923
Shinji Tsutsui	19					Nov 23, 1935
Yoshiji Yamamoto	20					Sep 30, 1934
Susumu Yuki	34					Sep 28, 1920

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