Yasumitsu Toyoda

Japanese baseball player and coach

Baseball player

Yasumitsu Toyoda
Toyoda in the August 1956 issue of The Yakyukai
Shortstop
Born: (1935-02-12)February 12, 1935 Daigo, Ibaraki
Died: August 14, 2016(2016-08-14) (aged 81) Kawasaki, Kanagawa
Batted: Right Threw: Right
NPB debut
March 21, 1953, for the Nishitetsu Lions
Last appearance
1969, for the Sankei Atoms
NPB statistics
Batting average	.277
Home runs	263
Runs batted in	888
Hits	1,699

Teams
As player Nishitetsu Lions (1953–1962) Kokutetsu/Sankei Swallows/Sankei Atoms (1963–1969) As coach Nishitetsu Lions (1962) Sankei Atoms (1968–1969) Kintetsu Buffaloes (1972)
Career highlights and awards
Pacific League Rookie of the Year (1953) 3× Japan Series champion (1956, 1957, 1958) 6× Best Nine Award (1956–57, 1959–62)
Member of the Japanese
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction	2006
Election method	Special election

Yasumitsu Toyoda (豊田泰光, Toyoda Yasumitsu, February 12, 1935 – August 14, 2016) was a Japanese professional baseball player and coach, who played as a shortstop. He played and coached for the Nishitetsu Lions and the Swallows franchise of Nippon Professional Baseball. In 1972, he coached the Kintetsu Buffaloes.

Playing career

Toyoda was known as a good hitter, and especially renowned for his postseason performances. He led the Pacific League in batting average in 1956, spoiling a Triple Crown attempt by teammate Futoshi Nakanishi. He batted a career .362 in the Japan Series.^[1] He died in Kawasaki at the age of 81 on August 14, 2016.^[2]^[3]

References

^ McNeil, William F. (2000). Baseball's Other All-Stars. McFarland. p. 129. Yasumitsu Toyoda.
^ "Ex-Pro Baseball Player Yasumitsu Toyoda Dies at 81". jiji.com. Retrieved 2016-08-15.
^ "Japanese baseball Hall of Famer Toyoda dies". japantimes.co.jp. 15 August 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-15.

External links

Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference (Minors)

Pacific League Rookie of the Year Award

1950: Aramaki
1951: Kageyama
1952: Nakanishi
1953: Toyoda
1954: Takuwa
1955: Enomoto
1956: Inao
1957: Kimura
1958: Sugiura
1959: Harimoto
1960: None
1961: Tokuhisa
1962: Ozaki
1963: None
1964: None
1965: Ikenaga
1966: None
1967: Y. Takahashi
1968: None
1969: Arito
1970: M. Sato
1971: Minagawa
1972: Kato
1973: Niimi
1974: Mitsui
1975: Yamaguchi
1976: M. Fujita
1977: Y. Sato
1978: Murakami
1979: Matsunuma
1980: Kida
1981: Ishige
1982: Oishi
1983: Futamura
1984: H. Fujita
1985: Kumano
1986: Kiyohara
1987: Awano
1988: Moriyama
1989: Sakai
1990: Nomo
1991: Hasegawa
1992: Takamura
1993: Sugiyama
1994: Watanabe
1995: Hirai
1996: Kaneko
1997: Kosaka
1998: Ozeki
1999: Matsuzaka
2000: None
2001: Okubo
2002: Shoda
2003: Wada
2004: Mise
2005: Kubo
2006: Yagi
2007: M. Tanaka
2008: Komatsu
2009: Settsu
2010: Sakakibara
2011: Makita
2012: Masuda
2013: Norimoto
2014: Ishikawa
2015: Arihara
2016: Takanashi
2017: Genda
2018: K. Tanaka
2019: R. Takahashi
2020: Taira
2021: Miyagi
2022: Mizukami
2023: Yamashita

v t e Japan Series MVP Award
1950: Betto 1951: Minamimura 1952: Bessho 1953: Kawakami 1954: Sugishita 1955: Bessho 1956: Toyoda 1957: Ohshita 1958: Inao 1959: Sugiura 1960: Kondo 1961: Miyamoto 1962: Dobashi 1962: Tanemo 1963: S. Nagashima 1964: Stanka 1965: S. Nagashima 1966: Shibata 1967: Mori 1968: Takada 1969: S. Nagashima 1970: S. Nagashima 1971: Suetsugu 1972: Horiuchi 1973: Horiuchi 1974: Hirota 1975: Yamaguchi 1976: Fukumoto 1977: Yamada 1978: Osugi 1979: Takahashi 1980: Lyttle 1981: Nishimoto 1982: Higashio 1983: Ota 1984: K. Nagashima 1985: Bass 1986: Kudō 1987: Kudō 1988: Ishige 1989: Komada 1990: Destrade 1991: Akiyama 1992: Take. Ishii 1993: Kawasaki 1994: Makihara 1995: O'Malley 1996: Neel 1997: Furuta 1998: Suzuki 1999: Akiyama 2000: Matsui 2001: Furuta 2002: Nioka 2003: Sugiuchi 2004: Taka. Ishii 2005: Imae 2006: Inaba 2007: N. Nakamura 2008: Kishi 2009: Abe 2010: Imae 2011: Kokubo 2012: Utsumi 2013: Mima 2014: Uchikawa 2015: Lee 2016: Laird 2017: Sarfate 2018: Kai 2019: Gracial 2020: Kurihara 2021: Y. Nakamura 2022: Sugimoto 2023: Chikamoto

Japan Series MVP Award

1950: Betto
1951: Minamimura
1952: Bessho
1953: Kawakami
1954: Sugishita
1955: Bessho
1956: Toyoda
1957: Ohshita
1958: Inao
1959: Sugiura
1960: Kondo
1961: Miyamoto
1962: Dobashi
1962: Tanemo
1963: S. Nagashima
1964: Stanka
1965: S. Nagashima
1966: Shibata
1967: Mori
1968: Takada
1969: S. Nagashima
1970: S. Nagashima
1971: Suetsugu
1972: Horiuchi
1973: Horiuchi
1974: Hirota
1975: Yamaguchi
1976: Fukumoto
1977: Yamada
1978: Osugi
1979: Takahashi
1980: Lyttle
1981: Nishimoto
1982: Higashio
1983: Ota
1984: K. Nagashima
1985: Bass
1986: Kudō
1987: Kudō
1988: Ishige
1989: Komada
1990: Destrade
1991: Akiyama
1992: Take. Ishii
1993: Kawasaki
1994: Makihara
1995: O'Malley
1996: Neel
1997: Furuta
1998: Suzuki
1999: Akiyama
2000: Matsui
2001: Furuta
2002: Nioka
2003: Sugiuchi
2004: Taka. Ishii
2005: Imae
2006: Inaba
2007: N. Nakamura
2008: Kishi
2009: Abe
2010: Imae
2011: Kokubo
2012: Utsumi
2013: Mima
2014: Uchikawa
2015: Lee
2016: Laird
2017: Sarfate
2018: Kai
2019: Gracial
2020: Kurihara
2021: Y. Nakamura
2022: Sugimoto
2023: Chikamoto

v t e Members of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
1950s inductees	Matsutarō Shōriki (1959) Hiroshi Hiraoka (1959) Yukio Aoi (1959) Shin Hashido (1959) Kiyoshi Oshikawa (1959) Jiro Kuji (1959) Eiji Sawamura (1959) Iso Abe (1959)
1960s inductees	Victor Starffin (1960) Yutaka Ikeda (1962) Haruyasu Nakajima (1963) Tadashi Wakabayashi (1964) Masaru Kageura (1965) Tetsuharu Kawakami (1965) Tsunetaro Moriyama (1966) Kazuto Tsuruoka (1969)
1970s inductees	Shunichi Amachi (1970) Nobuaki Nidegawa (1970) Shuichi Ishimoto (1972) Sadayoshi Fujimoto (1974) Fumio Fujimura (1974) Hideo Fujimoto (1976) Shigeru Mizuhara (1977) Michio Nishizawa (1977) Kenjiro Matsuki (1978) Shinji Hamazaki (1978) Takehiko Bessho (1979)
1980s inductees	Hiroshi Ohshita (1980) Makoto Kozuru (1980) Shigeru Chiba (1980) Tokuji Iida (1981) Yoshiyuki Iwamoto (1981) Osamu Mihara (1983) Shinji Kirihara (1984) Shigeru Sugishita (1985) Katsumi Shiraishi (1985) Atsushi Aramaki (1985) Shigeo Nagashima (1988) Kaoru Bettou (1988) Masaichi Nagata (1988) Saburo Yokozawa (1988) Yukio Nishimoto (1988) Masaichi Kaneda (1988) Hidenosuke Shima (1989) Katsuya Nomura (1989) Jiro Noguchi (1989)
1990s inductees	Juzo Sanada (1990) Isao Harimoto (1990) Shigeru Makino (1991) Osamu Tsutsui (1991) Kichiro Shimaoka (1991) Tatsuro Hirooka (1992) Michinori Tsubouchi (1992) Masao Yoshida (1992) Yoshio Yoshida (1992) Kazuhisa Inao (1993) Minoru Murayama (1993) Sadaharu Oh (1994) Wally Yonamine (1994) Shosei Go (1995) Tadashi Sugiura (1995) Tokichiro Ishii (1995) Motoshi Fujita (1996) Sachio Kinugasa (1996) Katsuo Osugi (1997) Futoshi Nakanishi (1999) Yoshinori Hirose (1999) Takeshi Koba (1999) Sadao Kondo (1999)
2000s inductees	Tetsuya Yoneda (2000) Rikuo Nemoto (2001) Masaaki Koyama (2001) Kazuhiro Yamauchi (2002) Keishi Suzuki (2002) Yutaka Fukumoto (2002) Kenjiro Tamiya (2002) Lefty O'Doul (2002) Masaoka Shiki (2002) Toshiharu Ueda (2003) Junzo Sekine (2003) Horace Wilson (2003) Sakae Suzuka (2003) Akira Ogi (2004) Noboru Akiyama (2004) Choji Murata (2005) Masaaki Mori (2005) Masayori Shimura (2005) Hiromitsu Kadota (2006) Morimichi Takagi (2006) Hisashi Yamada (2006) Yasumitsu Toyoda (2006) Hiromori Kawashima (2006) Takao Kajimoto (2007) Reiichi Matsunaga (2007) Koji Yamamoto (2008) Tsuneo Horiuchi (2008) Tsutomu Wakamatsu (2009) Seiichi Shima (2008)
2010s inductees	Osamu Higashio (2010) Hiromitsu Ochiai (2011) Mutsuo Minagawa (2011) Manabu Kitabeppu (2012) Tsunemi Tsuda (2012) Yutaka Ohno (2013) Hideo Nomo (2014) Koji Akiyama (2014) Kazuhiro Sasaki (2014) Atsuya Furuta (2015) Kihachi Enomoto (2016) Kimiyasu Kudoh (2016) Masaki Saito (2016) Tsutomu Ito (2017) Masaji Hiramatsu (2017) Senichi Hoshino (2017) Hideki Matsui (2018) Tomoaki Kanemoto (2018) Kazuyoshi Tatsunami (2019) Hiroshi Gondoh (2019)
2020s inductees	Koichi Tabuchi (2020) Kazuo Sayama (2021) Katsuji Kawashima (2021) Shigeyoshi Matsumae (2022) Shingo Takatsu (2022) Masa Yamamoto (2022) Alex Ramírez (2023) Randy Bass (2023) Yūji Koseki (2023)