This book—the first in the English language to contain an exhaustive collection of Japanese baseball data—presents basic statistical information and listings for every Japanese professional baseball season from 1936 through 1997. The first part contains yearly breakdowns of team standings; qualifiers for batting and earned run championships; leaders in home runs, runs batted in, wins and strikeouts; all-star game results; Japan Series results; Best Nine selections; Gold Glove selections; and award winners. Sections on career records and single-season records are provided in the second part of this work. Appendices list no-hit, no-run games, Japanese Hall of Famers, and records of foreign tours of Japan by professional teams.

Daniel E. Johnson is an award-winning writer and editor living in Penngrove, California. He has contributed to several books about Japanese baseball and writes on a wide variety of topics.

Daniel E. Johnson
Foreword by Wally Yonamine
Format: softcover (7 x 10)
Pages: 365
Bibliographic Info: bibliography, appendices, index
Copyright Date: 2006 [1999]
pISBN: 978-0-7864-2841-0
eISBN: 978-1-4766-0410-7
Imprint: McFarland

Acknowledgments      vii
Foreword by Wally Yonamine      1
Introduction      3

Part One: Season Summaries      7
1936 Season      9
1937 Season      12
1938 Season      19
1939 Season      24
1940 Season      27
1941 Season      30
1942 Season      33
1943 Season      35
1944 Season      38
1946 Season      40
1947 Season      43
1948 Season      46
1949 Season      49
1950 Season      52
1951 Season      58
1952 Season      64
1953 Season      69
1954 Season      75
1955 Season      80
1956 Season      85
1957 Season      90
1958 Season      95
1959 Season      99
1960 Season      103
1961 Season      108
1962 Season      112
1963 Season      117
1964 Season      122
1965 Season      127
1966 Season      132
1967 Season      137
1968 Season      142
1969 Season      146
1970 Season      151
1971 Season      156
1972 Season      161
1973 Season      166
1974 Season      172
1975 Season      179
1976 Season      185
1977 Season      191
1978 Season      197
1979 Season      203
1980 Season      210
1981 Season      216
1982 Season      223
1983 Season      229
1984 Season      234
1985 Season      240
1986 Season      245
1987 Season      251
1988 Season      256
1989 Season      261
1990 Season      266
1991 Season      272
1992 Season      277
1993 Season      282
1994 Season      288
1995 Season      293
1996 Season      298
1997 Season      304

Part Two: All-Time Records      311
Career Records      313
Single-Season Records      320
Miscellaneous Records      326

Appendix A: No-Hit, No-Run Games      329
Appendix B: Members of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame      333
Appendix C: Foreign Tours of Japan by Professional Teams      335
Bibliography      337
Index      339

“the American public deserves exposure to this book in public and school libraries, as do sports and fitness majors and researchers in academic institutions”—ARBA; “all the names and numbers you’ll need are in this year-by-year statistical summary of baseball in the Land of the Rising Sun”—USA Today Sports Weekly; “the first book in the English language to contain an exhaustive collection of data on baseball in Japan”—Sports Collectors Digest; “presents basic statistical information and listings for Japanese professional baseball from 1936 to 1997”—The SABR Bulletin; “detailed information”—Reference & Research Book News.