1960 NPB All-Star Game

There were three 1960 NPB All-Star Games because of the 10-year anniversary of the event. The Pacific League won twice while the Central League won the other one.

Game 1

Game 1 was held on July 25 at Kawasaki Stadium with an attendance of 20,768. Nobuyasu Morishita drove in the game-winning run with a double in the 2nd inning, and Kazuhiro Yamauchi added a solo shot off Masaaki Koyama in the 6th inning. Tetsuya Yoneda pitched 3 shutout innings to get the win, and Tadashi Sugiura struck out 4 in his 3 shutout innings. The CL only scored by Akira Owada's solo shot.

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

Players used

Pacific League Starting Lineup

1. Kenjiro Tamiya, CF (Daimai Orions)
2. Yasumitsu Toyoda, SS (Nishitetsu Lions)
3. Kihachi Enomoto, 1B (Daimai)
4. Kazuhiro Yamauchi, LF (Daimai)
5. Isao Harimoto, RF (Toei Flyers)
6. Takao Katsuragi, 3B (Daimai)
7. Katsuya Nomura, C (Nankai Hawks)
8. Nobuyasu Morishita, 2B (Nankai)
9. Tetsuya Yoneda, P (Hankyu Braves)

Backups Used

• Carlton Hanta, 2B (Nankai)
• Yoshinori Hirose, CF (Nankai)
• Akitoshi Kodama, 3B (Kintetsu Buffaloes)
• Shoichi Busujima, PH (Toei)
• Kingo Motoyashiki, SS (Hankyu)
• Minoru Tanimoto, C (Daimai)
• Seiji Sekiguchi, PH (Nishitetsu)
• Sukehiro Moroki, PR (Hankyu)
• Katsutoyo Yoshida, 1B (Toei)
• Junzo Sekine, PH (Kintetsu)
• Tadashi Sugiura, P (Nankai)
• Takao Kajimoto, P (Hankyu)
• Masayuki Dobashi, P (Toei)

Manager

• Kazuto Tsuruoka

Coaches

• Katsuki Tokura
• Yukio Nishimoto

Central League Starting Lineup

1. Toshio Naka, CF (Chunichi Dragons)
2. Noboru Inoue, 2B (Chunichi)
3. Shigeo Nagashima, SS (Yomiuri Giants)
4. Takeshi Kuwata, 3B (Taiyo Whales)
5. Tokuji Iida, 1B (Kokutetsu Swallows)
6. Toru Mori, RF (Chunichi)
7. Akira Owada, LF (Hiroshima Carp)
8. Kiyoshi Doi, C (Taiyo)
9. Masaichi Kaneda, P (Kokutetsu)

Backups used

• Yoshio Yoshida, SS (Hanshin Tigers)
• Kazuhiko Kondo, PH (Taiyo)
• Sadaharu Oh, PH (Yomiuri)
• Tatsuo Okitsu, PH (Hiroshima)
• Masaaki Mori, C (Yomiuri)
• Takeo Yoshizawa, C (Chunichi)
• Hideshi Miyake, PH (Hanshin)
• Takao Sato, RF (Kokutetsu)
• Michael Solomko, PH (Hanshin)
• Teruo Namiki, PH (Hanshin)
• Genichi Murata, P (Kokutetsu)
• Masaaki Koyama, P (Hanshin)
• Hiromi Oyane, P (Chunichi)

Manager

• Shigeru Mizuhara

Coaches

• Mitsuo Uno
• Osamu Mihara

Umpires

• Wataru Kawase (Home), Shoichi Kunitomo (1B), Fujio Ueda (2B), Kaname Aritsu (3B), Yutaka Tagawa (LF), Michinori Takino (RF)

Game 2

Game 2 took place at Korakuen Stadium on July 26 in front of a crowd of 29,439. Masaichi Kaneda won the MVP as he got the win in 2 shutout innings, and also collected the game-winning RBI single in the 9th inning. Carlton Hanta made history, recording the first inside-the-park home run, against Eiji Bando in the 7th inning.

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

Players used

Central League Starting Lineup

1. Sato, CF
2. Miyake, 3B
3. Owada, LF
4. Nagashima, SS
5. T. Mori, RF
6. Inoue, 2B
7. Iida, 1B
8. Doi, C
9. Minoru Murayama, P (Hanshin)

Backups used

• Kondo, 1B
• Yoshida, SS
• Oh, PH
• M. Mori, C
• Naka, CF
• Yoshizawa, C
• Kiyoshi Oishi, P (Hiroshima)
• Noboru Akiyama, P (Taiyo)
• Eiji Bando, P (Chunichi)
• Takashi Suzuki, P (Taiyo)
• Kaneda, P

Pacific League Starting Lineup

1. Tamiya, CF
2. Morishita, 2B
3. Enomoto, 1B
4. Yamauchi, LF
5. Harimoto, RF
6. Toyoda, SS
7. Katsuragi, 3B
8. Tanimoto, C
9. Shoichi Ono, P (Daimai)

Backups Used

• Nomura, C
• Hirose, CF
• Kodama, PH
• Sekine, PH
• Moroki, PH
• Hanta, 2B
• Sekiguchi, LF
• Motoyashiki, SS
• K.Yoshida, 1B
• Busujima, PH
• Katsumi Nakanishi, P (Daimai)
• Takayuki Hata, P (Nishitetsu)
• Dobashi, P

Umpires

• Hidenosuke Shima (Home), Ueda (1B), Tadaharu Hamazaki (2B), Takino (3B), Aritsu (LF), Kawase (RF)

Game 3

Game 3 took place at Korakuen Stadium on July 27 in front of a crowd of 29,405. Hajimu Tatsumi blasted the first homer by a pitcher in the 7th inning, and his teammate Michael Solomko and Takao Sato also hit homers in the same inning. However, they still lost this one-run game, and Isao Harimoto won the MVP with his 2-run homer in the first inning.

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Pacific	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	12	1
Central	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	5	9	2

Players used

Pacific League Starting Lineup

1. Tamiya, CF
2. Toyoda, SS
3. Enomoto, 1B
4. Yamauchi, LF
5. Harimoto, RF
6. Katsuragi, 3B
7. Morishita, 2B
8. Mitsuo Takeshita, C (Kintetsu)
9. Glenn Mickens, P (Kintetsu)

Backups Used

• Hirose, CF
• Motoyashiki, SS
• K.Yoshida, 1B
• Busujima, RF
• Kodama, 3B
• Sekine, PH
• Sekiguchi, PH
• Nomura, C
• Hanta, 2B
• Joe Stanka, P (Nankai)
• Yoneda, P
• Sugiura, P

Central League Starting Lineup

1. Naka, CF
2. Kondo, 1B
3. Nagashima, SS
4. T. Mori, RF
5. Miyake, 3B
6. Inoue, 2B
7. Solomko, LF
8. Doi, C
9. Murata, P

Backups used

• Sato, CF
• Yoshida, SS
• Namiki, PH
• M. Mori, C
• Owada, PH
• Yoshizawa, C
• Oh, PH
• Kuwata, PH
• Iida, PH
• Gentaro Shimada, P (Hiroshima)
• Oishi, P
• Hajimu Tatsumi, P (Chunichi)
• Oyane, P

Umpires

• Tagawa (Home), Takino (1B), Ueda (2B), Kunitomo (3B), Hamazaki (LF), Aritsu (RF)

Sources

• Japanese Wikipedia entry