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1952 Kokutetsu Swallows

1952 > Class Foreign > 1952 Japan Central League
Overall: 50-70
Scored 410 runs, Allowed 526 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 47-73

Affiliation: none or n/a
Manager: Norio Nishigaki
Represented: Tokyo, JP
Ballpark: n/a
Attendance: n/a
Other Years: 1951 / 1953

Team Roster

Bold indicates they played in the majors

	Age	B	T	Ht	Wt	DoB	Birthplace
Masao Chihara	26	R	R	5' 9.0"	154	Jan 1, 1926	Oita, JP
Soichi Fujita	37	R	R	5' 8.0"	176	Aug 20, 1914	Osaka, Osaka, JP
Yuichi Fukuda	31	R	R	5' 8.0"	132	Aug 22, 1920	Shizuoka, JP
Norio Furuya	30	R	R	5' 8.0"	132	Jul 27, 1921	Utsonomiya, Tochigi, JP
Jun Hakota	20	R	R	5' 8.0"	138	Feb 1, 1932	Fukuyama, Hiroshima, JP
Eiji Hatsuoka	22	L	L	5' 7.0"	132	Jun 22, 1930	Makabe-gun, Ibaraki, JP
Shinichiro Inoue	33					Sep 8, 1918
Yoshiaki Inoue	19					Sep 25, 1932
Hisatada Ishikawa	27					Jul 30, 1924
Toshio Iwahashi	31					Mar 6, 1921
Masaichi Kaneda	18					Aug 1, 1933
Masahiro Kinoshita	21					Apr 30, 1931
Kozo Koyama	16					Dec 20, 1935
Goichi Kubo	29					May 17, 1923
Yukihiko Machida	18					Mar 8, 1934
Yoshitomo Miyaji	20					Jan 28, 1932
Ryohei Moriya	37					Oct 16, 1914
Sakae Nakamura	29					Apr 24, 1923
Toshio Ogawa	37					May 11, 1915
Hideo Otsuji	18					Sep 15, 1933
Teruo Owaki	22					Mar 23, 1930
Kazuo Satake	27					Jan 28, 1925
Takao Sato	20					Aug 10, 1931
Kiyoshi Sugiura	37					Jul 20, 1914
Mototoshi Tahara	23					Jan 1, 1929
Akira Takahashi	20					Sep 19, 1931
Masataka Tsuchiya	27					Oct 8, 1924
Hiroshi Tsujii	35					Apr 21, 1917
Kazuo Usami	38					Mar 15, 1914

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