Shigeru Chiba (baseball)

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Shigeru Chiba
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Second baseman
Born: (1919-05-10)10 May 1919
Saijō, Ehime, Japan
Died: 9 December 2002(2002-12-09) (aged 83)
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
debut
1938, for the Tokyo Kyojin
Last appearance
1956, for the Yomiuri Giants
Teams
As player

As Manager

Member of the Japanese
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Induction1980

Shigeru Chiba (千葉 茂, Chiba Shigeru, 10 May 1919 – 9 December 2002) was a Japanese baseball second baseman who played with the Tokyo Kyojin/Yomiuri Giants from 1938 to 1941, and again from 1946 to 1956. He later managed the Kintetsu Buffalo from 1959 to 1961, and was elected to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1980.

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