| Wang Kuang-hui | |
| Position: | First Baseman |
| Birth Date: | 1964 11, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Hualien County, Taiwan |
| Death Place: | Taipei, Taiwan |
| Bats: | Right |
| Throws: | Right |
| Debutleague: | CPBL |
| Debutdate: | March 17 |
| Debutyear: | 1990 |
| Debutteam: | Brother Elephants |
| Stat2label: | Batting average |
| Stat2value: | .285 |
| Stat3label: | Hits |
| Stat3value: | 1009 |
| Stat4label: | Home runs |
| Stat4value: | 91 |
| Stat5label: | Runs batted in |
| Stat5value: | 524 |
| Stat6label: | Stolen bases |
| Stat6value: | 42 |
| Teams: | As player
As coach As manager |
Wang Kuang-hui (; 12 November 1964 – 30 August 2021) was a Taiwanese professional baseball player and coach. He spent his entire playing and coaching career in the Chinese Professional Baseball League with the Brother Elephants franchise.
Wang joined the Brother Hotel amateur baseball team in 1988. Wang won the batting champion in the Chinese Professional Baseball League's inaugural 1990 season. In middle of the 2004 season, he retired as a player. Over the course of his career, Wang appeared in twelve straight all-star games, and won the Gold Glove Award three times. Wang began his coaching career as a hitting coach for the Elephants. In October 2006, Wang was named the team's field manager. He resigned as manager in May 2009. He then coached youth and college baseball teams from 2010. Wang was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2020 and died of the disease on 30 August 2021, at the age of 56.[1] [2]
His younger brother Wang Kuang-shih, played for the China Times Eagles as an infielder, and Wang's son is an infielder for the CTBC Brothers.
| Season | team | G | AB | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | TB | DP | AVG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Brother Elephants | 79 | 310 | 106 | 9 | 45 | 3 | 24 | 21 | 158 | 8 | 0.342 | |
| 1991 | Brother Elephants | 64 | 243 | 66 | 9 | 35 | 2 | 25 | 26 | 108 | 5 | 0.272 | |
| 1992 | Brother Elephants | 88 | 319 | 81 | 12 | 43 | 12 | 39 | 37 | 126 | 6 | 0.254 | |
| 1993 | Brother Elephants | 84 | 290 | 95 | 10 | 46 | 8 | 30 | 26 | 143 | 7 | 0.328 | |
| 1994 | Brother Elephants | 85 | 344 | 102 | 10 | 55 | 1 | 13 | 40 | 152 | 11 | 0.297 | |
| 1995 | Brother Elephants | 83 | 297 | 94 | 8 | 48 | 1 | 26 | 37 | 134 | 12 | 0.316 | |
| 1996 | Brother Elephants | 91 | 354 | 115 | 8 | 57 | 3 | 16 | 35 | 161 | 10 | 0.325 | |
| 1997 | Brother Elephants | 96 | 365 | 95 | 4 | 49 | 1 | 30 | 42 | 127 | 12 | 0.260 | |
| 1998 | Brother Elephants | 86 | 334 | 102 | 9 | 56 | 5 | 18 | 38 | 141 | 11 | 0.305 | |
| 1999 | Brother Elephants | 89 | 325 | 70 | 8 | 41 | 4 | 33 | 38 | 107 | 15 | 0.215 | |
| 2000 | Brother Elephants | 30 | 105 | 27 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 7 | 18 | 33 | 3 | 0.257 | |
| 2001 | Brother Elephants | 76 | 239 | 54 | 4 | 28 | 1 | 23 | 27 | 45 | 10 | 0.213 | |
| 2002 | Brother Elephants | 12 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0.286 |
| 2003 | Brother Elephants | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | |
| 2004 | Brother Elephants | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.500 | |
| Total | 15 years | 968 | 3542 | 1009 | 91 | 524 | 42 | 285 | 390 | 1467 | 109 | 0.285 |
| Season | Team | Game | Win | Loss | Tie | Win% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Brother Elephants | 100 | 49 | 50 | 1 | 0.495 | |
| 2008 | Brother Elephants | 98 | 52 | 42 | 4 | 0.553 | |
| 2009 | Brother Elephants | 26 | 7 | 19 | 0 | 0.269 | |
| Total | 3 years | 224 | 108 | 111 | 5 | 0.482 |