Shosei Go

{{Short description|Taiwanese baseball player}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

| name = Shosei Go

| birth_name = {{cjkv|c=吳波|j=吳波|r=Go Ha|p=Wu Bo}}

| image = Go Shosei.JPG

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| caption =

| position = Outfielder, Pitcher

| birth_date = {{birth date|1916|06|28|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Taiwan

| death_date = {{death date and age|1987|06|07|1916|06|28}}

| death_place =

| bats = Left

| throws = Left

| debutleague = Japanese Baseball League

| debutdate =

| debutyear = 1937

| debutteam = Tokyo Kyojin

| finaldate =

| finalyear = 1957

| finalteam =Mainichi Orions

|finalleague = JBL/NPB

| statleague = Career hitting

| stat1label = Batting average

| stat1value = .272

| stat2label = Hits

| stat2value = 1,326

| stat3label = Runs batted in

| stat3value = 389

| stat4label = Stolen bases

|stat4value = 381

| stat5label = Win–loss record

| stat5value = 15–7

| stat6label = Earned run average

| stat6value = 3.48

| stat7label = Strikeouts

| stat7value = 66

| teams =

As Player

| highlights =

| hoflink = Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame

| hoftype = Japanese

| hofdate = 1995 (elected by the Special Committee)

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Shosei Go ({{zh|t=吳昌征|poj=Gô͘ Chhiong-cheng|p=Wú Chāngzhēng}}; Japanese: Go Shōsei; June 28, 1916 – June 7, 1987) was a Taiwanese two-way baseball player who played for the Tokyo Giants (1937–1943, now the Yomiuri Giants), Hanshin Tigers (1944–1949) and Mainichi Orions (1950–1957, now the Chiba Lotte Marines). Only 5-foot-6 and 140 pounds, he was nicknamed "The Human Locomotive" due to his speed. As a left-handed outfielder, he won two batting titles and a stolen base title.

As a pitcher, the bulk of his appearances were in 1946, when he went 14-6 with a 3.03 ERA and 16 complete games. Go also threw the first postwar no-hitter, against the Tokyo Senators in 1946.

Early life

Go, born Wu Bo ({{zh|t=吳波}}, played on the Kano baseball team and participated in the National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament in 1935 and 1936. After graduating from Kagi, he signed with the Tokyo Giants.{{cite book|last=Morris|first=Andrew|title=Colonial Project, National Game: A History of Baseball in Taiwan|publisher=University of California Press|date=2011}}

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