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Great Ring/Nankai Hawks</a> (1939, 1946–1952)</li></ul> <p><b>As manager</b> </p> <ul><li>Great Ring/Nankai Hawks (1949–1968)</li></ul> </td></tr><tr style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Career highlights and awards</th></tr><tr class="ib-baseball-bio-highlights"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <ul><li>3× <a href="/wiki/Nippon_Professional_Baseball_Most_Valuable_Player_Award" title="Nippon Professional Baseball Most Valuable Player Award">Nippon Professional Baseball Most Valuable Player Award</a> (1946, 1948, 1951)</li> <li>Home Run leader (1939)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Run_batted_in" title="Run batted in">RBI</a> leader (1946)</li></ul> </td></tr><tr class="ib-baseball-bio-member-header"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_Baseball_Hall_of_Fame" title="Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame">Member of the Japanese</a></th></tr><tr class="nowrap ib-baseball-bio-member" style="background:#272662;"><th 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href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.5em;">Induction</th><td class="infobox-data" style="padding-left:0.5em;">1965</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.5em;">Election method</th><td class="infobox-data" style="padding-left:0.5em;">Selection Committee for the Players</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Kazuto Tsuruoka</b><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">鶴岡一人</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Tsuruoka Kazuto</i></span>, July 27, 1916 – March 7, 2000)</span>, also known as <b>Kazuto Yamamoto</b>, was a Japanese former <a href="/wiki/Professional_baseball" title="Professional baseball">professional baseball</a> infielder and manager in the <a href="/wiki/Japan_Baseball_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Japan Baseball League">Japan Baseball League</a> (JBL) and <a href="/wiki/Nippon_Professional_Baseball" title="Nippon Professional Baseball">Nippon Professional Baseball</a> (NPB). </p><p>Tsuruoka played for the same franchise in 1939, and from 1946 to 1952, which during his career changed names from the Nankai Club to Kinki Great Ring, and ultimately to the <a href="/wiki/Nankai_Hawks" class="mw-redirect" title="Nankai Hawks">Nankai Hawks</a>. (Tsuruoka did not play professional baseball from 1940 to 1945.) In 1939 he won the JBL home run title with 10. Returning to the JBL after <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, in 1946 he won the <a href="/wiki/Nippon_Professional_Baseball_Most_Valuable_Player_Award" title="Nippon Professional Baseball Most Valuable Player Award">JBL Most Valuable Player Award</a>, repeating the feat in 1948. His team won the JBL championship both those years. </p><p>In 1949, he was named player-manager of the Hawks. His playing career ended after the 1952 season, but he stayed on as the team's manager through the 1968 season, guiding the team to <a href="/wiki/Japan_Series" title="Japan Series">Japan Series</a> championships in 1959 and 1964. His managerial record overall was 1773–1140, for a winning percentage of .609. </p><p>Tsuruoka was elected by the Selection Committee for the Players to the <a href="/wiki/Japanese_Baseball_Hall_of_Fame" title="Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame">Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame</a> in 1965.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #FFF179;">Awards </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold">N.A.<br /><a href="/wiki/Tadashi_Wakabayashi" title="Tadashi Wakabayashi">Tadashi Wakabayashi</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Nippon_Professional_Baseball_Most_Valuable_Player_Award" title="Nippon Professional Baseball Most Valuable Player Award">Japanese Baseball League MVP</a> </b><br /><a href="/wiki/1946_in_baseball" title="1946 in baseball">1946</a><br /><a href="/wiki/1948_in_baseball" title="1948 in baseball">1948</a> </td> <td style="width: 30%; 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Yamamoto</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1952: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Susumu_Yuki&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Susumu Yuki (page does not exist)">Yuki</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1953: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Isami_Okamoto&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Isami Okamoto (page does not exist)">Okamoto</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1954: <a href="/wiki/Hiroshi_Oshita" class="mw-redirect" title="Hiroshi Oshita">Oshita</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1955: <a href="/wiki/Tokuji_Iida" title="Tokuji Iida">Iida</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1956: <a href="/wiki/Futoshi_Nakanishi" title="Futoshi Nakanishi">Nakanishi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1957: <a href="/wiki/Kazuhisa_Inao" title="Kazuhisa Inao">Inao</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1958: <a href="/wiki/Kazuhisa_Inao" title="Kazuhisa Inao">Inao</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1959: <a href="/wiki/Tadashi_Sugiura" title="Tadashi Sugiura">Sugiura</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1960: <a href="/wiki/Kazuhiro_Yamauchi" title="Kazuhiro Yamauchi">Yamauchi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1961: <a href="/wiki/Katsuya_Nomura" title="Katsuya Nomura">Nomura</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1962: <a href="/wiki/Isao_Harimoto" title="Isao Harimoto">Harimoto</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1963: <a href="/wiki/Katsuya_Nomura" title="Katsuya Nomura">Nomura</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1964: <a href="/wiki/Joe_Stanka" title="Joe Stanka">Stanka</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1965: <a href="/wiki/Katsuya_Nomura" title="Katsuya Nomura">Nomura</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1966: <a href="/wiki/Katsuya_Nomura" title="Katsuya Nomura">Nomura</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1967: <a href="/wiki/Mitsuhiro_Adachi" title="Mitsuhiro Adachi">Adachi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1968: <a href="/wiki/Tetsuya_Yoneda" title="Tetsuya Yoneda">Yoneda</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1969: <a href="/wiki/Tokuji_Nagaike" title="Tokuji Nagaike">Nagaike</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1970: <a href="/wiki/Masaaki_Kitaru" title="Masaaki Kitaru">Kitaru</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1971: <a href="/wiki/Tokuji_Nagaike" title="Tokuji Nagaike">Nagaike</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1972: <a href="/wiki/Yutaka_Fukumoto" title="Yutaka Fukumoto">Fukumoto</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1973: <a href="/wiki/Katsuya_Nomura" title="Katsuya Nomura">Nomura</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1974: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tomehiro_Kaneda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tomehiro Kaneda (page does not exist)">Kaneda</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1975: <a href="/wiki/Hideji_Kat%C5%8D" title="Hideji Katō">Katō</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1976: <a href="/wiki/Hisashi_Yamada" title="Hisashi Yamada">Yamada</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1977: <a href="/wiki/Hisashi_Yamada" title="Hisashi Yamada">Yamada</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1978: <a href="/wiki/Hisashi_Yamada" title="Hisashi Yamada">Yamada</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1979: <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Manuel" title="Charlie Manuel">Manuel</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1980: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Isamu_Kida&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Isamu Kida (page does not exist)">Kida</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1981: <a href="/wiki/Yutaka_Enatsu" title="Yutaka Enatsu">Enatsu</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1982: <a href="/wiki/Hiromitsu_Ochiai" title="Hiromitsu Ochiai">Ochiai</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1983: <a href="/wiki/Osamu_Higashio" title="Osamu Higashio">Higashio</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1984: <a href="/wiki/Greg_Wells_(baseball)" title="Greg Wells (baseball)">Boomer</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1985: <a href="/wiki/Hiromitsu_Ochiai" title="Hiromitsu Ochiai">Ochiai</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1986: <a href="/wiki/Hiromichi_Ishige" title="Hiromichi Ishige">Ishige</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1987: <a href="/wiki/Osamu_Higashio" title="Osamu Higashio">Higashio</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1988: <a href="/wiki/Hiromitsu_Kadota" title="Hiromitsu Kadota">Kadota</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1989: <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Bryant" title="Ralph Bryant">Bryant</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1990: <a href="/wiki/Hideo_Nomo" title="Hideo Nomo">Nomo</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1991: <a href="/wiki/Kuo_Tai-yuan" title="Kuo Tai-yuan">T. Kaku</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1992: <a href="/wiki/Takehiro_Ishii" title="Takehiro Ishii">Ishii</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1993: <a href="/wiki/Kimiyasu_Kud%C5%8D" title="Kimiyasu Kudō">Kudō</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1994: <a href="/wiki/Ichiro_Suzuki" title="Ichiro Suzuki">Ichirō</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1995: <a href="/wiki/Ichiro_Suzuki" title="Ichiro Suzuki">Ichirō</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1996: <a href="/wiki/Ichiro_Suzuki" title="Ichiro Suzuki">Ichirō</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1997: <a href="/wiki/Fumiya_Nishiguchi" title="Fumiya Nishiguchi">Nishiguchi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1998: <a href="/wiki/Kazuo_Matsui" title="Kazuo Matsui">K. Matsui</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1999: <a href="/wiki/Kimiyasu_Kud%C5%8D" title="Kimiyasu Kudō">Kudō</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2000: <a href="/wiki/Nobuhiko_Matsunaka" title="Nobuhiko Matsunaka">Matsunaka</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2001: <a href="/wiki/Tuffy_Rhodes" title="Tuffy Rhodes">Rhodes</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2002: <a href="/wiki/Alex_Cabrera" title="Alex Cabrera">Cabrera</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2003: <a href="/wiki/Kenji_Johjima" title="Kenji Johjima">Johjima</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2004: <a href="/wiki/Nobuhiko_Matsunaka" title="Nobuhiko Matsunaka">Matsunaka</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2005: <a href="/wiki/Toshiya_Sugiuchi" title="Toshiya Sugiuchi">Sugiuchi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2006: <a href="/wiki/Michihiro_Ogasawara" title="Michihiro Ogasawara">Ogasawara</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2007: <a href="/wiki/Yu_Darvish" title="Yu Darvish">Darvish</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2008: <a href="/wiki/Hisashi_Iwakuma" title="Hisashi Iwakuma">Iwakuma</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2009: <a href="/wiki/Yu_Darvish" title="Yu Darvish">Darvish</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2010: <a href="/wiki/Tsuyoshi_Wada" title="Tsuyoshi Wada">Wada</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2011: <a href="/wiki/Seiichi_Uchikawa" title="Seiichi Uchikawa">Uchikawa</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2012: <a href="/wiki/Mitsuo_Yoshikawa" title="Mitsuo Yoshikawa">Yoshikawa</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2013: <a href="/wiki/Masahiro_Tanaka" title="Masahiro Tanaka">Tanaka</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2014: <a href="/wiki/Chihiro_Kaneko" title="Chihiro Kaneko">Kaneko</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2015: <a href="/wiki/Yuki_Yanagita" title="Yuki Yanagita">Yanagita</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2016: <a href="/wiki/Shohei_Ohtani" title="Shohei Ohtani">Ohtani</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2017: <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Sarfate" title="Dennis Sarfate">Sarfate</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2018: <a href="/wiki/Hotaka_Yamakawa" title="Hotaka Yamakawa">Yamakawa</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2019: <a href="/wiki/Tomoya_Mori" title="Tomoya Mori">Mori</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2020: <a href="/wiki/Yuki_Yanagita" title="Yuki Yanagita">Yanagita</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2021: <a href="/wiki/Yoshinobu_Yamamoto" title="Yoshinobu Yamamoto">Y. Yamamoto</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2022: <a href="/wiki/Yoshinobu_Yamamoto" title="Yoshinobu Yamamoto">Y. Yamamoto</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2023: <a href="/wiki/Yoshinobu_Yamamoto" title="Yoshinobu Yamamoto">Y. 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color:#003; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #003, inset -2px -2px 0 #003;;width:1%">1950s inductees</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Matsutar%C5%8D_Sh%C5%8Driki" title="Matsutarō Shōriki">Matsutarō Shōriki</a> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hiroshi_Hiraoka&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hiroshi Hiraoka (page does not exist)">Hiroshi Hiraoka</a> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yukio_Aoi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yukio Aoi (page does not exist)">Yukio Aoi</a> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shin_Hashido&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shin Hashido (page does not exist)">Shin Hashido</a> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiyoshi_Oshikawa" title="Kiyoshi Oshikawa">Kiyoshi Oshikawa</a> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jiro_Kuji&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jiro Kuji (page does not exist)">Jiro Kuji</a> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eiji_Sawamura" title="Eiji Sawamura">Eiji Sawamura</a> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iso_Abe" class="mw-redirect" title="Iso Abe">Iso Abe</a> (1959)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:white; color:#003; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #003, inset -2px -2px 0 #003;;width:1%">1960s inductees</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Victor_Starffin" title="Victor Starffin">Victor Starffin</a> (1960)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yutaka_Ikeda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yutaka Ikeda (page does not exist)">Yutaka Ikeda</a> (1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haruyasu_Nakajima" title="Haruyasu Nakajima">Haruyasu Nakajima</a> (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tadashi_Wakabayashi" title="Tadashi Wakabayashi">Tadashi Wakabayashi</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masaru_Kageura" title="Masaru Kageura">Masaru Kageura</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tetsuharu_Kawakami" title="Tetsuharu Kawakami">Tetsuharu Kawakami</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsunetaro_Moriyama" title="Tsunetaro Moriyama">Tsunetaro Moriyama</a> (1966)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Kazuto Tsuruoka</a> (1969)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:white; color:#003; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #003, inset -2px -2px 0 #003;;width:1%">1970s inductees</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shunichi_Amachi" title="Shunichi Amachi">Shunichi Amachi</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nobuaki_Nidegawa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nobuaki Nidegawa (page does not exist)">Nobuaki Nidegawa</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shuichi_Ishimoto&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shuichi Ishimoto (page does not exist)">Shuichi Ishimoto</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sadayoshi_Fujimoto" title="Sadayoshi Fujimoto">Sadayoshi Fujimoto</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fumio_Fujimura" title="Fumio Fujimura">Fumio Fujimura</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hideo_Fujimoto" title="Hideo Fujimoto">Hideo Fujimoto</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shigeru_Mizuhara" title="Shigeru Mizuhara">Shigeru Mizuhara</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michio_Nishizawa" title="Michio Nishizawa">Michio Nishizawa</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenjiro_Matsuki" title="Kenjiro Matsuki">Kenjiro Matsuki</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shinji_Hamazaki" title="Shinji Hamazaki">Shinji Hamazaki</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Takehiko_Bessho" title="Takehiko Bessho">Takehiko Bessho</a> (1979)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:white; color:#003; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #003, inset -2px -2px 0 #003;;width:1%">1980s inductees</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hiroshi_Ohshita" title="Hiroshi Ohshita">Hiroshi Ohshita</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Makoto_Kozuru" title="Makoto Kozuru">Makoto Kozuru</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shigeru_Chiba_(baseball)" title="Shigeru Chiba (baseball)">Shigeru Chiba</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tokuji_Iida" title="Tokuji Iida">Tokuji Iida</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoshiyuki_Iwamoto" title="Yoshiyuki Iwamoto">Yoshiyuki Iwamoto</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osamu_Mihara" title="Osamu Mihara">Osamu Mihara</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shinji_Kirihara&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shinji Kirihara (page does not exist)">Shinji Kirihara</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shigeru_Sugishita" title="Shigeru Sugishita">Shigeru Sugishita</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Katsumi_Shiraishi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Katsumi Shiraishi (page does not exist)">Katsumi Shiraishi</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atsushi_Aramaki" title="Atsushi Aramaki">Atsushi Aramaki</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Takeo_Akuta" title="Takeo Akuta">Takeo Akuta</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shigeo_Nagashima" title="Shigeo Nagashima">Shigeo Nagashima</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaoru_Bettou" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaoru Bettou">Kaoru Bettou</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masaichi_Nagata" title="Masaichi Nagata">Masaichi Nagata</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saburo_Yokozawa" title="Saburo Yokozawa">Saburo Yokozawa</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yukio_Nishimoto" title="Yukio Nishimoto">Yukio Nishimoto</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masaichi_Kaneda" title="Masaichi Kaneda">Masaichi Kaneda</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hidenosuke_Shima&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hidenosuke Shima (page does not exist)">Hidenosuke Shima</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katsuya_Nomura" title="Katsuya Nomura">Katsuya Nomura</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jiro_Noguchi" title="Jiro Noguchi">Jiro Noguchi</a> (1989)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:white; color:#003; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #003, inset -2px -2px 0 #003;;width:1%">1990s inductees</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Juzo_Sanada" title="Juzo Sanada">Juzo Sanada</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isao_Harimoto" title="Isao Harimoto">Isao Harimoto</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shigeru_Makino" title="Shigeru Makino">Shigeru Makino</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Osamu_Tsutsui&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Osamu Tsutsui (page does not exist)">Osamu Tsutsui</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kichiro_Shimaoka&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kichiro Shimaoka (page does not exist)">Kichiro Shimaoka</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tatsuro_Hirooka" title="Tatsuro Hirooka">Tatsuro Hirooka</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michinori_Tsubouchi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michinori Tsubouchi (page does not exist)">Michinori Tsubouchi</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masao_Yoshida_(baseball)" title="Masao Yoshida (baseball)">Masao Yoshida</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoshio_Yoshida_(baseball)" title="Yoshio Yoshida (baseball)">Yoshio Yoshida</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kazuhisa_Inao" title="Kazuhisa Inao">Kazuhisa Inao</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minoru_Murayama" title="Minoru Murayama">Minoru Murayama</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sadaharu_Oh" title="Sadaharu Oh">Sadaharu Oh</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wally_Yonamine" title="Wally Yonamine">Wally Yonamine</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shosei_Go" title="Shosei Go">Shosei Go</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tadashi_Sugiura" title="Tadashi Sugiura">Tadashi Sugiura</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tokichiro_Ishii&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tokichiro Ishii (page does not exist)">Tokichiro Ishii</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Motoshi_Fujita" title="Motoshi Fujita">Motoshi Fujita</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sachio_Kinugasa" title="Sachio Kinugasa">Sachio Kinugasa</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katsuo_Osugi" title="Katsuo Osugi">Katsuo Osugi</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Futoshi_Nakanishi" title="Futoshi Nakanishi">Futoshi Nakanishi</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoshinori_Hirose" title="Yoshinori Hirose">Yoshinori Hirose</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Takeshi_Koba" title="Takeshi Koba">Takeshi Koba</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sadao_Kondo" class="mw-redirect" title="Sadao Kondo">Sadao Kondo</a> (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:white; color:#003; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #003, inset -2px -2px 0 #003;;width:1%">2000s inductees</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tetsuya_Yoneda" title="Tetsuya Yoneda">Tetsuya Yoneda</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rikuo_Nemoto" title="Rikuo Nemoto">Rikuo Nemoto</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masaaki_Koyama" title="Masaaki Koyama">Masaaki Koyama</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kazuhiro_Yamauchi" title="Kazuhiro Yamauchi">Kazuhiro Yamauchi</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keishi_Suzuki" title="Keishi Suzuki">Keishi Suzuki</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yutaka_Fukumoto" title="Yutaka Fukumoto">Yutaka Fukumoto</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenjiro_Tamiya" title="Kenjiro Tamiya">Kenjiro Tamiya</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lefty_O%27Doul" title="Lefty O'Doul">Lefty O'Doul</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masaoka_Shiki" title="Masaoka Shiki">Masaoka Shiki</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toshiharu_Ueda" title="Toshiharu Ueda">Toshiharu Ueda</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Junzo_Sekine" title="Junzo Sekine">Junzo Sekine</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horace_Wilson_(professor)" title="Horace Wilson (professor)">Horace Wilson</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sakae_Suzuka&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sakae Suzuka (page does not exist)">Sakae Suzuka</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akira_Ogi" class="mw-redirect" title="Akira Ogi">Akira Ogi</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noboru_Akiyama" title="Noboru Akiyama">Noboru Akiyama</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Choji_Murata" title="Choji Murata">Choji Murata</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masaaki_Mori_(baseball)" title="Masaaki Mori (baseball)">Masaaki Mori</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Masayori_Shimura&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Masayori Shimura (page does not exist)">Masayori Shimura</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiromitsu_Kadota" title="Hiromitsu Kadota">Hiromitsu Kadota</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morimichi_Takagi" title="Morimichi Takagi">Morimichi Takagi</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hisashi_Yamada" title="Hisashi Yamada">Hisashi Yamada</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yasumitsu_Toyoda" title="Yasumitsu Toyoda">Yasumitsu Toyoda</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiromori_Kawashima" title="Hiromori Kawashima">Hiromori Kawashima</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Takao_Kajimoto" title="Takao Kajimoto">Takao Kajimoto</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Reiichi_Matsunaga&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Reiichi Matsunaga (page does not exist)">Reiichi Matsunaga</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koji_Yamamoto_(baseball,_born_1946)" title="Koji Yamamoto (baseball, born 1946)">Koji Yamamoto</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsuneo_Horiuchi" title="Tsuneo Horiuchi">Tsuneo Horiuchi</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsutomu_Wakamatsu" title="Tsutomu Wakamatsu">Tsutomu Wakamatsu</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seiichi_Shima" title="Seiichi Shima">Seiichi Shima</a> (2008)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:white; 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