Born:(1925-06-24)June 24, 1925 Olowalu, Hawaii Territory
Died: February 28, 2011(2011-02-28) (aged 85) Honolulu, Hawaii
NPB debut
June 19, 1951, for the Yomiuri Giants
Last appearance
October 12, 1962, for the Chunichi Dragons
NPB statistics
Batting average
.311
Hits
1,337
Home runs
82
Runs batted in
482
Teams
As Player
Yomiuri Giants (1951–1960)
Chunichi Dragons (1961–1962)
As Manager
Chunichi Dragons (1972–1977)
Career highlights and awards
4x Japan Series Champion: 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955
CL MVP (1957)
8× NPB All-Star (1952-1959)
7× Best Nine Award (1952-1958)
Member of the Japanese
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction
1994
American football player
American football career
No. 94
Position:
Running back
Personal information
Height:
5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Weight:
180 lb (82 kg)
Career information
High school:
Farrington (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Career history
San Francisco 49ers (1947)
Career NFL statistics
Rushing yards:
74
Receiving yards:
40
Touchdowns:
0
Player stats at PFR
Wallace Kaname Yonamine (与那嶺要, Yonamine Kaname, June 24, 1925 – February 28, 2011) was a Japanese American multi-sport athlete who played in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
nickname, originally Wallace, but quickly changed to Wally, which would later become his legal name. Yonamine signed a $14,000 contract, playing running back...
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team to hire a foreigner as manager, WallyYonamine, who led the team from 1972 to 1977.[citation needed] (Yonamine spoke fluent Japanese, and was later...
Nankai Hawks 4 games to 2 for their first NPB championship. Hawaiian WallyYonamine was the first American to play professional baseball in Japan after...
tenures in NPB belong to Tuffy Rhodes (a total of 13 seasons in NPB), WallyYonamine (12 seasons), Leron Lee (11 seasons), and Leon Lee, Greg Wells,[citation...
currently serving as general manager for the Toronto Raptors of the NBA. WallyYonamine played professionally in the NFL for a single season with the San Francisco...
December 30, 2010. Retrieved October 7, 2010. Fitts, Robert K (2008). WallyYonamine: The Man Who Changed Japanese Baseball. University of Nebraska Press...
talk show host Becky Worley, journalist Weird Al Yankovic, musician WallyYonamine (1925– 2011), athlete Hawaii portal Islands portal National Register...
and Rufus Gaines. These players were the first Americans other than WallyYonamine to play Nippon Professional Baseball after World War II. Starting in...
Hall of Fame (1994); founder/owner, WallyYonamine Pearls – Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan; philanthropist – WallyYonamine Foundation; Governors Hall of Fame...
titles, and the 1992 Olympic gold medal Tabitha Yim – American gymnast WallyYonamine – multisport athlete, played for the San Francisco 49ers (1947), Yomiuri...
Kawaragi (河原木 志穂), a Japanese voice actress Kaname Yonamine (与那嶺要, 1925-2011), also known as WallyYonamine, a multi-sport American athlete with the surname...
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a poet, playwright and actor Thomas Yamamoto (1917–2004), an artist WallyYonamine (1925–2011), multi-sport athlete who played for the San Francisco 49ers...
Scott Cary, 87, pitcher for the 1947 Washington Senators. February 28 – WallyYonamine, 85, first American to play professional baseball in Japan after World...
Kazuhisa Inao (1993) Minoru Murayama (1993) Sadaharu Oh (1994) Wally Kaname Yonamine (1994) Shosei Go (1995) — elected by the Special Committee Tadashi...
Attorney General of British Columbia (1979–1983), after long illness. WallyYonamine, 85, American baseball (Yomiuri Giants, Chunichi Dragons) and football...
knuckleball pitcher, as his pitching coach, and brought in Japanese American WallyYonamine as a coach and interpreter. The team struggled with a lack of talent...
Norman Sakata Barbara Barnard Smith Dorothy "Aunty Dottie" Thompson WallyYonamine Edwin Mahiai Beamer Dr. Charles P.K.M. Burrows Rev. Sam Cox Benjamin...
to the San Francisco Giants for outfielder Bobby Bonds. October 23 – WallyYonamine, an American of Japanese descent, becomes the only non-Japanese manager...
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