NPB Players From Taiwan/China
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Re: NPB Players From Taiwan/China
[ Author: Guest: Jim Albright | Posted: May 3, 2004 11:12 PM
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Early NPB great Shosei Go was born there.
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Jim Albright
Re: NPB Players From Taiwan/China
[ Author: Guest: BC | Posted: Jun 10, 2004 8:36 AM
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Shosei Go's Chinese name was Wu Bo. Some other early Taiwanese players in Japan were:
- Luo Daohou (Ito Jiro) 1936 - '38 with the Tokyo Senators
Ye Tiansong (Okamura Toshiaki) 1940 - '49 with the Nankai Hawks
Wu Xinheng (Ogihara Hiroshi) 1944 - '52 with the Yomiuri Giants
Re: NPB Players From Taiwan/China
[ Author: Guest: BC | Posted: Jun 7, 2004 7:28 PM
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I think you also forgot Meishi Ro - Lu Ming-tsu, former slugger of the Giants; Katsuo-Soh - Chuang Sheng-hsiung, pitched for Lotte.
Re: NPB Players From Taiwan/China
[ Author: Guest: Frank | Posted: Jun 8, 2004 2:46 PM
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If my childhood memory from 15 years ago is correct, didn't CPBL's first two great pitchers, Huang "Golden Arm" Pin-Yang and Chen "Flying Knife" Yi-Shin, play in Japan until CPBL came into existing?
Re: NPB Players From Taiwan/China
[ Author: Guest: BC | Posted: Jun 10, 2004 8:27 AM
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Frank,
You're absolutely right; Chen Yi-Hsin played for the Dragons in Japan during the 1989 and '90 seasons, before he finished his career in Taiwan from '91 on.
I don't have any stats on Huang Ping-Yang from his Japanese career, but I do believe he also played in Japan prior to the '90 season.
You're absolutely right; Chen Yi-Hsin played for the Dragons in Japan during the 1989 and '90 seasons, before he finished his career in Taiwan from '91 on.
I don't have any stats on Huang Ping-Yang from his Japanese career, but I do believe he also played in Japan prior to the '90 season.
Re: NPB Players From Taiwan/China
[ Author: Guest: BC | Posted: Jun 10, 2004 6:40 AM
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FYI - so your list isn't redundant, Kuo Lee Chien Fu's Japanese name was Kakuri Tateo.
Re: NPB Players From Taiwan/China
[ Author: Guest: Gary Garland | Posted: Jun 12, 2004 11:17 AM
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I have stats for the retired foreign position players on my site, Japan Baseball Daily. I will have the retired pitchers up before the end of the year. So you might want to check it out.
Re: NPB Players From Taiwan/China
[ Author: Guest: Binoculars Across the Pacific | Posted: Jun 14, 2004 12:33 AM
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Maybe I'm not looking clearly, but you're missing what in my opinion was the most obvious Taiwanese player: Wang Chen-chih a.k.a Sadaharu Oh. I guess, though, he wasn't actually from Taiwan as he was born in Japan and his mother was Japanese, but I thought I'd throw it in anyway.
Re: NPB Players From Taiwan/China
[ Author: Guest: Andrew | Posted: Jun 14, 2004 12:07 PM
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Yes, his father is from Zhejiang province in China.
Re: NPB Players From Taiwan/China
[ Author: Guest: Jim Albright | Posted: Jun 17, 2004 8:42 AM
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1940s and '50s Lions' and Flyers' great Hiroshi Oshita was born there, according to Fitts and Engels' book.
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Re: NPB Players From Taiwan/China
[ Author: Guest: Andrew | Posted: Jun 17, 2004 12:36 PM
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Hiroshi Oshita was half-Japanese and half-Chinese. His mother was Chinese while his father was an officer in the Japanese military. According to Japan Baseball Daily, his father died when Hiroshi was three and his mother had to run a small restaurant.
Re: NPB Players From Taiwan/China
[ Author: Guest: joe | Posted: Jun 19, 2004 10:01 AM
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Yu Wen Bin played there, too.
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I know that Kuo Tai-yuan (Kaku Taigen), Chen Tai-feng (Yasuaki Taiho), Kuo Yuan-zhi (Kaku Gengi), Chen Wen-bin, Lin Wei-tsu, Chang Chi-chia, Hsu Ming-chieh, Chen Wei-yin, Kuo-lee Chien-fu, Tsao Jung-yang, Kakuri Tateo, and Lu Chengan all played there. Are there any that I have missed?