Toyoo Sugiyama

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Toyoo Sugiyama (also transliterated as Toyo Sugiyama)

  • Bats Left, Throws Left

First baseman Toyoo Sugiyama hit .168/.230/.177 in 49 games for Yamato in 1942. He scored only one run. The next year, Sugiyama was drafted into the Japanese military. He died in combat in the Philippines two years after that.

Source: Japanbaseballdaily.com by Gary Garland