Yasumitsu Toyoda

Yasumitsu Toyoda
Yasumitsu Toyoda
	Toyoda in the August 1956 issue of The Yakyukai
	Shortstop
	Born: February 12, 1935; Daigo, Ibaraki
	Died: August 14, 2016 (aged 81); Kawasaki, Kanagawa
	Batted: Right Threw: Right
NPB debut
	March 21, 1953, for the Nishitetsu Lions
Last appearance
	1969, for the Sankei Atoms
NPB statistics
Batting average	.277
Home runs	263
Runs batted in	888
Hits	1,699
Teams
	As player Nishitetsu Lions (1953–1962); Kokutetsu/Sankei Swallows/Sankei Atoms (1963–1969); As coach Nishitetsu Lions (1962); Sankei Atoms (1968–1969); Kintetsu Buffaloes (1972);
Career highlights and awards
	Pacific League Rookie of the Year (1953); 3× Japan Series champion (1956, 1957, 1958); 6× Best Nine Award (1956–57, 1959–62);
Member of the Japanese
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction	2006
Election method	Special election

Yasumitsu Toyoda (豊田泰光, Toyoda Yasumitsu, February 12, 1935 – August 14, 2016) was a Japanese professional baseball player and coach, who played as a shortstop. He played and coached for the Nishitetsu Lions and the Swallows franchise of Nippon Professional Baseball. In 1972, he coached the Kintetsu Buffaloes.

Playing career

Toyoda was known as a good hitter, and especially renowned for his postseason performances. He led the Pacific League in batting average in 1956, spoiling a Triple Crown attempt by teammate Futoshi Nakanishi. He batted a career .362 in the Japan Series.^[1] He died in Kawasaki at the age of 81 on August 14, 2016.^[2]^[3]

References

^ McNeil, William F. (2000). Baseball's Other All-Stars. McFarland. p. 129. Yasumitsu Toyoda.
^ "Ex-Pro Baseball Player Yasumitsu Toyoda Dies at 81". jiji.com. Retrieved 2016-08-15.
^ "Japanese baseball Hall of Famer Toyoda dies". japantimes.co.jp. 15 August 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-15.

External links

Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference (Minors)

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[1] McNeil, William F. (2000). Baseball's Other All-Stars. McFarland. p. 129. Yasumitsu Toyoda.

[2] "Ex-Pro Baseball Player Yasumitsu Toyoda Dies at 81". jiji.com. Retrieved 2016-08-15.

[3] "Japanese baseball Hall of Famer Toyoda dies". japantimes.co.jp. 15 August 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-15.

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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)

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