Shosei Go

Shosei Go
Shosei Go
	Baseball player from Taiwan
	Outfielder, Pitcher
	Born: Chinese and Japanese: 吳波; pinyin: Wu Bo; rōmaji: Go Ha; June 28, 1916; Taiwan under Japanese rule
	Died: June 7, 1987 (aged 70)
Japanese Baseball League debut
	1937, for the Tokyo Kyojin
Last JBL/NPB appearance
	1957, for the Mainichi Orions
Career hitting statistics
Batting average	.272
Hits	1,326
Home runs	21
Runs batted in	389
stolen bases	381
Career pitching statistics
Win–loss record	15-7
ERA	3.48
Strikeouts	66
Teams
	As Player Tokyo Kyojin (1937–1943); Hanshin/Osaka Tigers (1944–1949); Mainichi Orions (1950–1957);
Career highlights and awards
	Japanese Baseball League MVP (1943); Pitched a no-hitter on June 16, 1946;
Member of the Japanese
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction	1995 (elected by the Special Committee)

Shosei Go (Chinese: 吳昌征; pinyin: Wú Chāngzhēng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gô͘ Chhiong-cheng; Japanese: Go Shōsei; June 28, 1916 – June 7, 1987) was a two-way baseball player from Taiwan.

Go was a leadoff man 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.

External links

Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference (Minors)
Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

Awards
Preceded by Shigeru Mizuhara	Japanese Baseball League MVP 1943	Succeeded by Tadashi Wakabayashi

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