Toshio Inoko

Toshio Inoko (猪子 利男)

• Bats Right, Throws Right

• High School Toho High School

• Born May 24, 1921 in Ichinomiya, Aichi Japan
• Died May 26, 1998

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Biographical Information

Toshio Inoko played in Nippon Pro Baseball for 3 years.

Inoko signed with the Nankai Hawks in 1941, and he hit 192/.260/.200 in 43 games in his first season. He then collected 33 sacrifice bunts with a .198/.286/.246 batting line in 1942, and he set the NPB record for most sacrifice bunts in a season (broken by Akihito Kondo in 1965) Inoko still held the Nankai/Softbank Hawks team record until Munenori Kawasaki broke it in 2009. He hit .174/.268/.218 in 1943, then he enlisted into the military and his professional career ended.

Overall, Inoko hit .187/.275/.228 with 147 hits and 2 homers in 3 seasons in NPB.

Sources

• Wiki Japan