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Yukio Nishimoto
Japanese baseball player

Yukio Nishimoto

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Japanese baseball player
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Gender
Male
Place of birth
Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
Age
91 years
Stats
Height:
171 cm
Weight:
64 kg
Awards
Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
 
Sports Teams
Chiba Lotte Marines (Japan)
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Biography

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.

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