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Japanese baseball player and manager

Baseball player

Yukio Nishimoto
Nishimoto in 1955
First baseman/Manager
Born: (1920-04-25)25 April 1920 Wakayama, Wakayama, Japan
Died: 25 November 2011(2011-11-25) (aged 91) Takarazuka, Hyōgo, Japan
Batted: LeftThrew: Left
debut
1950
Last appearance
1955

Teams
As Player Mainichi Orions (1950–1955) As Manager Mainichi / Daimai Orions (1954–1960) Hankyu Braves (1962–1973) Kintetsu Buffaloes (1974–1981)
Member of the Japanese
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction	1988

Yukio Nishimoto (西本幸雄, Nishimoto Yukio, 25 April 1920 – 25 November 2011) was a Japanese baseball player and manager. He played for the Mainichi Orions from 1950 to 1955. As a manager he won eight Pacific League pennants. However his clubs would never go on to win the Japan Series, earning him the nickname "Great Tragic Leader". Nishimoto was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1988. He died of heart failure on 25 November 2011 aged 91.

References

Hall of Fame manager Nishimoto dies at 91The Daily Yomiuri, 26 November 2011 Archived 30 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine

External links

Yukio Nishimoto career statistics at yakyubaka.com

v t e Matsutaro Shoriki Award
1977: Oh 1978: Hirooka 1979: Nishimoto 1980: Koba 1981: Fujita 1982: Hirooka 1983: Tabuchi 1984: Kinugasa 1985: Yoshida 1986: Mori 1987: Kudo 1988: Kadota 1989: Fujita 1990: Mori 1991: Akiyama 1992: Ishii 1993: Nomura 1994: Nagashima, Ichiro 1995: Ichiro 1996: Ohgi 1997: Furuta 1998: Sasaki 1999: Oh 2000: Matsui 2001: Wakamatsu 2002: Hara 2003: Hoshino, Oh 2004: Itō, Ichiro 2005: Valentine 2006: Oh 2007: Ochiai 2008: Watanabe 2009: Hara 2010: Nishimura 2011: Akiyama 2012: Abe, Hara 2013: Hoshino 2014: Akiyama 2015: Kudō 2016: Kuriyama 2017: Sarfate 2018: Kudō 2019: Kudō 2020: Kudō 2021: Takatsu 2022: Nakajima 2023: Okada 2024: Miura

Matsutaro Shoriki Award

1977: Oh
1978: Hirooka
1979: Nishimoto
1980: Koba
1981: Fujita
1982: Hirooka
1983: Tabuchi
1984: Kinugasa
1985: Yoshida
1986: Mori
1987: Kudo
1988: Kadota
1989: Fujita
1990: Mori
1991: Akiyama
1992: Ishii
1993: Nomura
1994: Nagashima, Ichiro
1995: Ichiro
1996: Ohgi
1997: Furuta
1998: Sasaki
1999: Oh
2000: Matsui
2001: Wakamatsu
2002: Hara
2003: Hoshino, Oh
2004: Itō, Ichiro
2005: Valentine
2006: Oh
2007: Ochiai
2008: Watanabe
2009: Hara
2010: Nishimura
2011: Akiyama
2012: Abe, Hara
2013: Hoshino
2014: Akiyama
2015: Kudō
2016: Kuriyama
2017: Sarfate
2018: Kudō
2019: Kudō
2020: Kudō
2021: Takatsu
2022: Nakajima
2023: Okada
2024: Miura

v t e Members of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
1950s inductees	Matsutarō Shōriki (1959) Hiroshi Hiraoka (1959) Yukio Aoi (1959) Shin Hashido (1959) Kiyoshi Oshikawa (1959) Jiro Kuji (1959) Eiji Sawamura (1959) Iso Abe (1959)
1960s inductees	Victor Starffin (1960) Yutaka Ikeda (1962) Haruyasu Nakajima (1963) Tadashi Wakabayashi (1964) Masaru Kageura (1965) Tetsuharu Kawakami (1965) Tsunetaro Moriyama (1966) Kazuto Tsuruoka (1969)
1970s inductees	Shunichi Amachi (1970) Nobuaki Nidegawa (1970) Shuichi Ishimoto (1972) Sadayoshi Fujimoto (1974) Fumio Fujimura (1974) Hideo Fujimoto (1976) Shigeru Mizuhara (1977) Michio Nishizawa (1977) Kenjiro Matsuki (1978) Shinji Hamazaki (1978) Takehiko Bessho (1979)
1980s inductees	Hiroshi Ohshita (1980) Makoto Kozuru (1980) Shigeru Chiba (1980) Tokuji Iida (1981) Yoshiyuki Iwamoto (1981) Osamu Mihara (1983) Shinji Kirihara (1984) Shigeru Sugishita (1985) Katsumi Shiraishi (1985) Atsushi Aramaki (1985) Takeo Akuta (1988) Shigeo Nagashima (1988) Kaoru Bettou (1988) Masaichi Nagata (1988) Saburo Yokozawa (1988) Yukio Nishimoto (1988) Masaichi Kaneda (1988) Hidenosuke Shima (1989) Katsuya Nomura (1989) Jiro Noguchi (1989)
1990s inductees	Juzo Sanada (1990) Isao Harimoto (1990) Shigeru Makino (1991) Osamu Tsutsui (1991) Kichiro Shimaoka (1991) Tatsuro Hirooka (1992) Michinori Tsubouchi (1992) Masao Yoshida (1992) Yoshio Yoshida (1992) Kazuhisa Inao (1993) Minoru Murayama (1993) Sadaharu Oh (1994) Wally Yonamine (1994) Shosei Go (1995) Tadashi Sugiura (1995) Tokichiro Ishii (1995) Motoshi Fujita (1996) Sachio Kinugasa (1996) Katsuo Osugi (1997) Futoshi Nakanishi (1999) Yoshinori Hirose (1999) Takeshi Koba (1999) Sadao Kondo (1999)
2000s inductees	Tetsuya Yoneda (2000) Rikuo Nemoto (2001) Masaaki Koyama (2001) Kazuhiro Yamauchi (2002) Keishi Suzuki (2002) Yutaka Fukumoto (2002) Kenjiro Tamiya (2002) Lefty O'Doul (2002) Masaoka Shiki (2002) Toshiharu Ueda (2003) Junzo Sekine (2003) Horace Wilson (2003) Sakae Suzuka (2003) Akira Ogi (2004) Noboru Akiyama (2004) Choji Murata (2005) Masaaki Mori (2005) Masayori Shimura (2005) Hiromitsu Kadota (2006) Morimichi Takagi (2006) Hisashi Yamada (2006) Yasumitsu Toyoda (2006) Hiromori Kawashima (2006) Takao Kajimoto (2007) Reiichi Matsunaga (2007) Koji Yamamoto (2008) Tsuneo Horiuchi (2008) Tsutomu Wakamatsu (2009) Seiichi Shima (2008)
2010s inductees	Osamu Higashio (2010) Hiromitsu Ochiai (2011) Mutsuo Minagawa (2011) Manabu Kitabeppu (2012) Tsunemi Tsuda (2012) Yutaka Ohno (2013) Hideo Nomo (2014) Koji Akiyama (2014) Kazuhiro Sasaki (2014) Atsuya Furuta (2015) Kihachi Enomoto (2016) Kimiyasu Kudoh (2016) Masaki Saito (2016) Tsutomu Ito (2017) Masaji Hiramatsu (2017) Senichi Hoshino (2017) Hideki Matsui (2018) Tomoaki Kanemoto (2018) Kazuyoshi Tatsunami (2019) Hiroshi Gondoh (2019)
2020s inductees	Koichi Tabuchi (2020) Kazuo Sayama (2021) Katsuji Kawashima (2021) Shigeyoshi Matsumae (2022) Shingo Takatsu (2022) Masa Yamamoto (2022) Alex Ramírez (2023) Randy Bass (2023) Yūji Koseki (2023) Ichiro Suzuki (2025) Hitoki Iwase (2025) Masayuki Kakefu (2025)

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