1957 NPB All-Star Game

There were two 1957 NPB All-Star Games and they were split between the Pacific League and Central League for the third year in a row.

Game 1

Game 1 was held on July 11 at Chunichi Stadium in front of 32,606 fans. Hiroshi Ohshita drove in two runs with his clutch double in the second inning to win the MVP, and Kazuhiro Yamauchi crushed a solo shot in the 4th inning. Ohshita added an insurance run with another double in the 9th inning, and Mutsuo Minagawa drove him in. Takao Kajimoto and Kazuhisa Inao combined to shut out the CL for 6 innings while fanning seven, and the CL finally broke through against Minagawa in the 9th inning with Kenjiro Tamiya's two-run shot. Atsushi Aramaki successfully closed the door for the PL.

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

Players used

Pacific League Starting Lineup

1. Nobuyasu Morishita, 2B (Nankai Hawks)
2. Akitoshi Kodama, 3B (Kintetsu Buffaloes)
3. Yasumitsu Toyoda, SS (Nishitetsu Lions)
4. Kazuhiro Yamauchi, CF (Mainichi Orions)
5. Katsuya Nomura, C (Nankai)
6. Seiji Sekiguchi, LF (Nishitetsu)
7. Hiroshi Ohshita, RF (Nishitetsu)
8. Kihachi Enomoto, 1B (Mainichi)
9. Takao Kajimoto, P (Hankyu Braves)

Backups Used

• Akinobu Kono, 1B (Nishitetsu)
• Teruyuki Takakura, CF (Nishitetsu)
• Futoshi Nakanishi, PH (Nishitetsu)
• Shoichi Busujima, PH (Toei Flyers)
• Takao Katsuragi, 3B (Mainichi)
• Kazuhisa Inao, P (Nishitetsu)
• Mutsuo Minagawa, P (Nankai)
• Atsushi Aramaki, P (Mainichi)

Manager

• Osamu Mihara

Coaches

• Kazuto Tsuruoka
• Kaoru Betto

Central League Starting Lineup

1. Wally Yonamine, LF (Yomiuri Giants)
2. Yoshio Yoshida, SS (Osaka Tigers)
3. Andy Miyamoto, RF (Yomiuri)
4. Tetsuharu Kawakami, 1B (Yomiuri)
5. Kenjiro Tamiya, CF (Osaka)
6. Noboru Inoue, 2B (Chunichi Dragons)
7. Hideshi Miyake, 3B (Taiyo Whales)
8. Shigeru Fujio, C (Yomiuri)
9. Masaichi Kaneda, P (Kokutetsu Swallows)

Backups used

• Takeo Yoshizawa, C (Chunichi)
• Noboru Aota, PH (Taiyo)
• Hiroji Okajima, 3B (Chunichi)
• Kiyoshi Doi, C (Taiyo)
• Tokuji Iida, PH (Kokutetsu)
• Yukihiko Machida, PH (Kokutetsu)
• Hiromu Fujii, PH (Hiroshima Carp)
• Jun Hakota, PH (Kokutetsu)
• Ryohei Hasegawa, P (Hiroshima)
• Tsutomu Ina, P (Chunichi)
• Noboru Akiyama, P (Taiyo)

Manager

• Shigeru Mizuhara

Coaches

• Shunichi Amachi
• Fumio Fujimura

Umpires

• Hidenosuke Shima (Home), Saburo Yokozawa (1B), Osamu Tsutsui (2B), Nobuaki Nidegawa (3B), Shirou Tsuda (LF), Nobuyoshi Hasegawa (RF)

Game 2

Game 2 took place two days later at Chunichi Stadium, with an attendance of 25,395. Kenjiro Tamiya was 2-for-4 with a RBI, and Andy Miyamoto won the MVP with his game-winning, solo home run off Inao in the 7th inning. The PL only needed 4 hits to score four, and Kihachi Enomoto drove in half of their runs with a timely double.

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

Players used

Pacific League Starting Lineup

1. Busujima, CF
2. Toyoda, SS
3. Nakanishi, 3B
4. Yamauchi, LF
5. Nomura, C
6. Ohshita, RF
7. Morishita, 2B
8. Enomoto, 1B
9. Tamotsu Kimura, P (Nankai)

Backups used

• Takakura, CF
• Hachiro Yamamoto, C (Toei)
• Kodama, PH
• Kono, 1B
• Katsuragi, PH
• Tsutomu Edamura, PH (Daiei Unions)
• Hisafumi Kawamura, P (Nishitetsu)
• Kajimoto, P
• Noboru Makino, P (Toei)
• Aramaki, P
• Inao, P

Central League Starting Lineup

1. Yonamine, LF
2. Yoshida, SS
3. Miyamoto, RF
4. Kawakami, 1B
5. Tamiya, CF
6. Inoue, 2B
7. Okajima, 3B
8. Fujio, C
9. Masaaki Koyama, P (Osaka)

Backups used

• Hakota, PH
• Aota, PH
• Fujii, 1B
• Machida, RF
• Miyake, 3B
• Tatsuro Hirooka, 3B (Yomiuri)
• Doi, C
• Iida, 1B
• Toshitake Nakayama, P (Chunichi)
• Hasegawa, P
• Motoshi Fujita, P (Yomiuri)
• Kaneda, P

Umpires

• Nidegawa (Home), Tsutsui (1B), Yokozawa (2B), Tsuda (3B), Hasegawa (LF), Shima (RF)

Players did not play

• Takehiko Bessho, P (Yomiuri)
• Isami Okamoto, 2B (Nankai)
• Hiromi Wada, C (Nishitetsu)
• Katsuki Tokura, OF (Hankyu)

Sources

• NPB.com box
• Japanese Wikipedia