1959 NPB All-Star Game

There were two 1959 NPB All-Star Games and they were split between the Pacific League and Central League for the fifth year in a row.

Game 1

Game 1 was held on July 28 at Nishinomiya Baseball Stadium in front of 20,768 fans. The PL outhit the CL, 15-5, and outscored them, 9-0. Tetsuya Yoneda, Tadashi Sugiura (who got the win), Kazuhisa Inao and Yukio Shimabara teamed on the shutout, fanning 15, while Yoshio Yoshida was the only CL player with multiple hits. Minoru Murayama pitched two shutout innings to match Yoneda but the CL relievers got hammered. The PL offensive included 3 RBI from RF/LF Kazuhiro Yamauchi and 3 hits from CF Teruyuki Takakura. Yamauchi hit the game's lone homer as well and was named MVP.

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Central	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	1
Pacific	0	0	2	1	0	0	5	1	-	9	15	2

Players used

Central League Starting Lineup

1. Yoshitaka Kosaka, 2B (Hiroshima Carp)
2. Kazuhiko Sakazaki, CF (Yomiuri Giants)
3. Takeshi Kuwata, 1B (Taiyo Whales)
4. Shigeo Nagashima, 3B (Yomiuri)
5. Toru Mori, RF (Chunichi Dragons)
6. Akira Owada, LF (Hiroshima)
7. Yoshio Yoshida, SS (Osaka Tigers)
8. Tetsuya Yamamoto, C (Osaka)
9. Minoru Murayama, P (Osaka)

Backups used

• Toshio Naka, CF (Chunichi)
• Wally Yonamine, PH (Yomiuri)
• Kiyoshi Doi, C (Taiyo)
• Tatsuro Hirooka, PH (Yomiuri)
• Shigeru Fujio, C (Yomiuri)
• Shinichi Etoh, PH (Chunichi)
• Yoshio Kitagawa, P (Kokutetsu Swallows)
• Katsuya Morinaga, PH (Hiroshima)
• Motoshi Fujita, P (Yomiuri)
• Masaaki Koyama, P (Osaka)
• Hideshi Miyake, PH (Oska)
• Takashi Suzuki, P (Taiyo)

Manager

• Shigeru Mizuhara

Coaches

• Mitsuo Uno
• Yoshio Tanaka

Pacific League Starting Lineup

1. Isami Okamoto, 2B (Nankai Hawks)
2. Kihachi Enomoto, 1B (Daimai Orions)
3. Yasumitsu Toyoda, SS (Nishitetsu Lions)
4. Kazuhiro Yamauchi, RF (Daimai)
5. Takao Katsuragi, 3B (Daimai)
6. Teruyuki Takakura, CF (Nishitetsu)
7. Yoshihiro Nakata, LF (Hankyu Braves)
8. Katsuya Nomura, C (Nankai)
9. Tetsuya Yoneda, P (Hankyu)

Backups Used

• Roberto Barbon, 2B (Hankyu)
• Yosuke Terada, 1B (Nankai)
• Carlton Handa, SS (Nankai)
• Yoshinori Hirose, RF (Nankai)
• Yasuhiko Kawai, C (Nishitetsu)
• Junzo Sekine, PH (Kintetsu Buffaloes)
• Tadashi Sugiura, P (Nankai)
• Akio Saionji, PH (Toei Flyers)
• Kazuhisa Inao, P (Nishitetsu)
• Akitoshi Kodama, PH (Kintetsu)
• Yukio Shimabara, P (Nishitetsu)

Manager

• Osamu Mihara

Coaches

• Kazuto Tsuruoka
• Kaoru Betto

Umpires

• Hidenosuke Shima (Home), Saburo Yokozawa (1B), Mitsuru Enjouji (2B), Toshiharu Inokawa (3B), Hiroya Tomizawa (LF), Tadaharu Hamazaki (RF)

Game 2

Game 2 took place a day later at Osaka Baseball Stadium, with an attendance of 27,418. The CL bats woke up in a 6-4 victory, paced by MVP Naka (3 RBI) and Nagashima (3 H, 3 R), each of whom went yard. Murayama got the win with another two shutout innings (this time in relief) while yesterday's winner Sugiura took the loss. Yamauchi and Toyoda each had three hits for the PL.

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Central	0	3	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	6	10	0
Pacific	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	4	13	0

Players used

Central League Starting Lineup

1. Miyake, 2B
2. Yoshida, SS
3. Kuwata, 1B
4. Nagashima, 3B
5. Sakazaki, RF
6. Yonamine, LF
7. Naka, CF
8. Fujio, C
9. Masaichi Kaneda, P (Kokutetsu)

Backups used

• Etoh, 1B
• Tokuji Iida, 1B (Kokutetsu)
• Owada, LF
• Mori, RF
• Doi, C
• Yamamoto, C
• Noboru Akiyama, P (Taiyo)
• Koyama, P
• Kosaka, PH
• Murayama, P
• Hirooka, PH
• Yoshio Bizen, P (Hiroshima)
• Fujita, P

Pacific League Starting Lineup

1. Yoshida, SS
2. Hirose, RF
3. Nomura, C
4. Yamauchi, LF
5. Katsuragi, 3B
6. Takakura, CF
7. Terada, 1B
8. Okamoto, 2B
9. Masayuki Dobashi, P (Toei)

Backups used

• Hiromi Wada, PR (Nishitetsu)
• Enomoto, 1B
• Sekine, PH
• Shoichi Ono, P (Daimai)
• Yoshinobu Uemura, P (Daimai)
• Inao, P
• Saionji, PH
• Tameo Iio, P (Toei)
• Kodama, 3B
• Barbon, 2B
• Handa, PH
• Sugiura, P
• Yoneda, P
• Nakata, LF

Umpires

• Hamazaki (Home), Jukichi Koshiba (1B), Nobuaki Nidegawa (2B), Tomizawa (3B), Inokawa (LF), Enjouji (RF)

Sources

• Michael Westbay's Japanese Baseball Database
• Defunct Japanbaseballdaily.com site by Gary Garland
• Japanese Wikipedia