Seiichi Shima Explained

Seiichi Shima
Position:Pitcher
Birth Date:15 December 1920
Birth Place:Wakayama, Wakayama
Death Place:off the coast of Indochina
Bats:Left
Throws:Left
Hoflink:Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
Hoftype:Japanese
Hofdate:2008

was a baseball player who pitched for Kaisou Central High School and Meiji University of the Tokyo Big6 Baseball League. He never got to play professionally, as he was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army in 1945. He died during World War II, on March 29, 1945, off the coast of Indochina.[1] He was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008.[2]

Shima represented Kaisou Central in the 1939 Japanese High School Baseball Championship, where he shut out all five of the opposing teams, only allowed five hits, struck out 57 batters, and pitched no-hitters in the semifinal and final rounds. Shima began to play for Meiji University in 1940.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Seiichi Shima . Baseball's Greatest Sacrifice . 28 December 2018.
  2. Web site: 2008 Hall of Famers Elected . The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum . 28 December 2018.