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Nippon Professional Baseball is a professional baseball league and the highest level of baseball in Japan. Locally, it is often called , meaning simply ''Professional Baseball''; outside of Japan, NPB is often referred to as "Japanese baseball". The roots of the league ...

infielder An infielder is a baseball player stationed at one of four defensive "infield" positions on the baseball field, between first base and third base. Standard arrangement of positions In a game of baseball, two teams of nine players take turns pla ...

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1947 births Living people Japanese baseball players Nippon Professional Baseball infielders Hanshin Tigers players Managers of baseball teams in Japan Hanshin Tigers managers Baseball people from Wakayama (city) {{Japan-baseball-infielder-stub