Yukio Nishimoto

{{short description|Japanese baseball player and manager}}

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| name = Yukio Nishimoto

| image = Yukio Nishimoto 1955 Scan10015.jpg

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| caption = Nishimoto in 1955

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| position = First baseman/Manager

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1920|04|25}}

| birth_place = Wakayama, Wakayama, Japan

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2011|11|25|1920|04|25}}

| death_place = Takarazuka, Hyōgo, Japan

| bats = Left

| throws = Left

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| debutyear = 1950

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| finalyear = 1955

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| statleague = NPB

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As Player

• Mainichi Orions ({{Baseball year|1950}}–{{Baseball year|1955}})

As Manager

• Mainichi / Daimai Orions ({{Baseball year|1954}}–{{Baseball year|1960}})
• Hankyu Braves ({{Baseball year|1962}}–{{Baseball year|1973}})
• Kintetsu Buffaloes ({{Baseball year|1974}}–{{Baseball year|1981}})

|awards =

| hoflink = Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame

| hoftype = Japanese

| hofdate = 1988

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{{Nihongo|Yukio Nishimoto|西本 幸雄|Nishimoto Yukio|25 April 1920  – 25 November 2011}} was a Japanese baseball player and manager. He played for the Mainichi Orions from 1950 to 1955. As a manager he won eight Pacific League pennants. However his clubs would never go on to win the Japan Series, earning him the nickname "Great Tragic Leader". Nishimoto was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1988. He died of heart failure on 25 November 2011 aged 91.[http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/sports/T111126002710.htm Hall of Fame manager Nishimoto dies at 91]The Daily Yomiuri, 26 November 2011 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111130231311/http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/sports/T111126002710.htm |date=30 November 2011 }}