Lo Kuo-chong
{{short description|Taiwanese baseball player}}
{{family name hatnote|Lo|lang=Chinese}}
{{Infobox baseball biography
| name = Lo Kuo-chong
| image = Kuo-Chong Lo.jpg
| image_size = 250
| position = Shortstop
| team =
| number =
| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|September 16, 1965}}
| birth_place = Hsinchu, Taiwan
| bats = Right
| throws = Right
| debutdate = March 15
| debutyear = 1994
| debutteam = Uni-President Lions
| statyear = 2002
| stat1label = Games
| stat1value = 740
| stat2label = Batting average
| stat2value = 0.251
| stat3label = Hits
| stat3value = 649
| stat4label = Home runs
| stat4value = 1
| stat5label = RBIs
| stat5value = 235
| stat6label = Stolen bases
| stat6value = 50
| teams =
- Uni-President Lions ({{by|1994}}–{{by|2002}})
| awards =
- CPBL Rookie of the Year (1994)
|medaltemplates=
{{MedalSport|Men's baseball}}
{{Medal|Country|{{bb|TPE}}}}
{{MedalSport | Men's Baseball}}
{{MedalSilver| 1992 Barcelona | Team}}
}}
Lo Kuo-chong ({{zh|c=羅國璋|p=Luó Guózhāng}}; born 16 September 1965 in Hsinchu, Taiwan, also spelled Lo Kuo-chang) is a retired Taiwanese professional baseball player and currently a baseball coach. He had been well known for his excellent fielding ability, which was demonstrated by setting CPBL's record of did not error in a streak of continuous 153 fielding chances during his rookie 1994 season, and was a frequent member of the Chinese Taipei national baseball team from mid-1980s to early 1990s, participating the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics where he won a silver medal in 1992.
After the 1992 Olympics Lo joined then amateur Sampo Giants in anticipation to join CPBL the next year. However his hope temporarily vanished when CPBL rejected Sampo Giants's application late in 1992. Lo later sought to join Uni-President Lions before the 1994 CPBL season, and stayed with the team to date, originally as player (1994~2002) and later as fielding coach (since 2003 to date). He was also briefly promoted as the team's acting manager in mid-2007 for two months.
Trivia
- He won the 1996 CPBL Rookie of the Year award at the age of 31, therefore was jokingly referred to as old man of the year ({{zh|t=老人王}}) by commentators and players.
References
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070825090852/http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=LOKUO01 Lo Kuo-chong at databaseOlympics.com]
{{Chinese Taipei baseball roster 1992 Summer Olympics}}
{{Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions Managers}}
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Category:Asian Games competitors for Chinese Taipei
Category:Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions coaches
Category:Baseball third basemen
Category:Baseball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Category:Baseball players at the 1990 Asian Games
Category:Baseball players at the 1990 Goodwill Games
Category:Baseball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Category:Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic baseball players for Taiwan
Category:Olympic medalists in baseball
Category:Olympic silver medalists for Taiwan
Category:Sportspeople from Hsinchu
Category:Taiwanese baseball players