1955 NPB All-Star Game

There were two 1955 NPB All-Star Games and they were split between the Pacific League and Central League.

Game 1

Game 1 was held on July 2 at Osaka Stadium in front of 30,032 fans. Motoji Takuwa, Yasuo Yonekawa, Atsushi Aramaki and Hidefumi Kawamura combined to shut out the CL while striking out 3; they only allowed 3 singles. The PL also didn't have many scoring chances as their entire team recorded 4 hits, but Kazuhiro Yamauchi's homer in the 4th inning was enough for the PL to get the win. He was the MVP winner. Kazunori Nishimura struck out 6 in 3 innings for the CL and Masaichi Kaneda added 7, but they still lost the game.

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Pacific	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	4	0
Central	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0

Players used

Pacific League Starting Lineup

1. Kaoru Betto, CF (Mainichi Orions)
2. Isami Okamoto, 2B (Nankai Hawks)
3. Futoshi Nakanishi, 3B (Nishitetsu Lions)
4. Hiroshi Ohshita, RF (Nishitetsu)
5. Kazuhiro Yamauchi, LF (Mainichi)
6. Charlie Luis, C (Mainichi)
7. Kihachi Enomoto, 1B (Mainichi)
8. Motoji Takuwa, P (Nankai)
9. Chusuke Kizuka, SS (Nankai)

Backups Used

• Tokuji Iida, CF (Nankai)
• Osamu Takechi, PH (Kintetsu Buffaloes)
• Toshiaki Yamada, RF (Tombo Unions)
• Junji Nakatani, 1B (Nishitetsu)
• Bunjiro Sakamoto, PH (Daiei Unions)
• Katsuki Tokura, PH (Hankyu Braves)
• Yasuo Yonekawa, P (Tokyu Flyers)
• Hidefumi Kawamura, P (Nishitetsu)
• Atsushi Aramaki, P (Mainichi)

Manager

• Osamu Mihara

Coaches

• Kazuto Tsuruoka
• Shuichi Ishimoto

Central League Starting Lineup

1. Masayasu Kaneda, LF (Osaka Tigers)
2. Yoshio Yoshida, SS (Osaka)
3. Hiroyuki Watanabe, 2B (Osaka)
4. Michio Nishizawa, 1B (Chunichi Dragons)
5. Kenjiro Tamiya, CF (Osaka)
6. Choei Shirasaka, RF (Osaka)
7. Tatsuro Hirooka, 3B (Yomiuri Giants)
8. Shigeru Tokuami, C (Osaka)
9. Kazunori Nishimura, P (Osaka)

Backups used

• Wally Yonamine, CF (Yomiuri)
• Takehiko Bessho, PH (Yomiuri)
• Yasuhiko Kawai, C (Chunichi)
• Noboru Aota, PH (Taiyo Whales)
• Shigeru Chiba, PH (Yomiuri)
• Satoshi Sugiyama, LF (Chunichi)
• Riichi Kodama, 3B (Chunichi)
• Takao Sato, RF (Kokutetsu Swallows)
• Yukihiko Machida, RF (Kokutetsu)
• Ryohei Hasegawa, P (Hiroshima Carp)
• Masaichi Kaneda, P (Kokutetsu)
• Shigeru Sugishita, P (Chunichi)

Manager

• Shigeru Mizuhara

Coaches

• Akira Noguchi
• Fumio Fujimura

Umpires

• Hidenosuke Shima (Home), Saburo Yokozawa (1B), Mitsuru Enjouji (2B), Nobuaki Nidegawa (3B), Shoichi Kunitomo (LF), Matsuo Kakutani (RF)

Game 2

Game 2 took place a day later at Koshien Stadium, with an attendance of 33,663. Michio Nishizawa blasted 2 homers with 4 RBI to win the MVP, and player-coach Fumio Fujimura pinch-hit and drove in 2 runs with a single. Takumi Otomo fanned 4 in 3 shutout innings, and he got the win. Junji Nakatani crushed a solo shot in the first inning for the PL, and catcher Charlie Luis collected 2 RBI.

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Pacific	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	6	2
Central	0	0	3	0	2	0	4	0	X	9	11	3

Players used

Pacific League Starting Lineup

1. Betto, CF
2. Okamoto, 2B
3. Nakanishi, 3B
4. Ohshita, RF
5. Yamauchi, LF
6. Luis, C
7. Enomoto, 1B
8. Takuwa, P
9. Kizuka, SS

Backups used

• Iida, 1B
• Sakamoto, 3B
• Tokura, PH
• Keizo Tsutsui, C (Nankai)
• Takeshi Hibino, C (Nishitetsu)
• Yasumitsu Toyoda, SS (Nishitetsu)
• Yamada, PH
• Seiji Sekiguchi, PH (Nishitetsu)
• Nakatani, PH
• Yoshinobu Uemura, P (Mainichi)
• Sadaaki Nishimura, P (Nishitetsu)
• Yonekawa, P
• Aramaki, P
• Mamoru Otsu, P (Nishitetsu)

Central League Starting Lineup

1. Yonamine, LF
2. Yoshida, SS
3. Watanabe, RF
4. Nishizawa, 1B
5. Tamiya, CF
6. Hirooka, 3B
7. Shirasaka, 2B
8. Tokuami, C
9. K.Nishimura, P

Backups used

• Fujimura, PH
• Aota, PH
• Machida, RF
• Kodama, 3B
• Sugiyama, LF
• Sato, PH
• Jun Hirota, C (Yomiuri)
• Tokuzo Harada, PH (Chunichi)
• Kaneda, P
• Hasegawa, P
• Takumi Otomo, P (Yomiuri)
• Takehiko Bessho, P (Yomiuri)

Umpires

• Nidegawa (Home), Kunitomo (1B), Kakutani (2B), Enjouji (3B), Yokozawa (LF), Shima (RF)

Players did not play

• Hiroshi Nakao, P (Yomiuri)

Sources

• NPB.com box
• Japanese Wikipedia