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
| 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
- Tokyo Kyojin ({{Baseball year|1937}}–{{Baseball year|1943}})
- Hanshin/Osaka Tigers ({{Baseball year|1944}}–{{Baseball year|1949}})
- Mainichi Orions ({{Baseball year|1950}}–{{Baseball year|1957}})
| highlights =
- Japanese Baseball League MVP (1943)
- Pitched a no-hitter on June 16, 1946
| hoflink = Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
| hoftype = Japanese
| hofdate = 1995 (elected by the Special Committee)
}}
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}}
See also
References
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External links
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- [http://english.baseball-museum.or.jp/baseball_hallo/detail/detail_116.html Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum]
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{{succession box | before = Shigeru Mizuhara | title = Japanese Baseball League MVP| years = {{Baseball year|1943}} | after = Tadashi Wakabayashi}}
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Category:Mainichi Orions players
Category:Hanshin Tigers players
Category:Japanese people of Taiwanese descent
Category:Naturalized citizens of Japan
Category:Baseball players from Kaohsiung
Category:Taiwanese emigrants to Japan
Category:Taiwanese expatriate baseball players in Japan
Category:Japanese sportspeople of Chinese descent
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