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Baseball player
Masaichi Kaneda 金田 正一
Kaneda in 1956
Pitcher
Born: Kim Kyung-Hong (1933-08-01)1 August 1933 Heiwa, Nakashima, Aichi, Empire of Japan
Died: 6 October 2019(2019-10-06) (aged 86) Tokyo, Japan
Batted: Left
Threw: Left
NPB debut
23 August, 1950, for the Kokutetsu Swallows
Last appearance
18 October, 1969, for the Yomiuri Giants
NPB statistics
Win–loss
400–298
Earned run average
2.34
Shutouts
82
Innings pitched
5,526.2
Strikeouts
4,490
Career statistics
Batting average
.198
Hits
406
Home runs
38
Run batted in
177
Teams
As player
Kokutetsu Swallows (1950–1964)
Yomiuri Giants (1965–1969)
As manager
Lotte Orions (1973–1978, 1990–1991)
Career highlights and awards
Japanese Triple Crown (1958)
14× 20-game winner
3× Eiji Sawamura Award (1956–1958)
10× strikeouts leader
3× ERA leader
Pitched two no-hitters
Pitched a perfect game on 21 August 1957
Yomiuri Giants #34 retired
Member of the Japanese
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction
1988
Masaichi Kaneda (金田 正一, Kaneda Masaichi, 1 August 1933 – 6 October 2019)[1] was a Japanese professional baseball pitcher of Zainichi Korean origin,[2] one of the best-known pitchers in Japanese baseball history, and is the only Japanese pitcher to have won 400 games. He was inducted in the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1988.[3]
Nicknamed "The Emperor" because he was the most dominant pitcher in Japan during his prime, Kaneda holds numerous Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) career records. He won 400 games despite being on an extremely weak team, the Kokutetsu Swallows, for most of his career. About 90% of his 400 career wins came with the Swallows. Kaneda batted and threw left-handed.
^元巨人の金田正一さんが死去 前人未到400勝投手 (in Japanese)
^Griggs, Lee (19 August 1963). "The Winningest Japanese". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
^Whiting, Robert, "Kawakami's philosophy as manager never wavered", Japan Times, 28 November 2013, p. 16, retrieved 28 November 2013
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