Hsien-Fan Ho

Hsien-Fan Ho (何献凡)
formerly known as Chin-Fan Ho

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 9", Weight 171 lb.

• High School National Taiwan University of Sport

• Born February 25, 1966 in Kaohsiung City Taiwan

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Biographical Information

Hsien-Fan Ho played in the CPBL and for the Chinese Taipei national baseball team. His son is minor league infielder Shao-Bin Ho.

Ho represented Taiwan in the 1994 Asian Games, 1994 Baseball World Cup and 1995 Asian Championship. In the '94 World Cup, he hit a dazzling .452/.500/.710 with seven runs and nine RBI in eight games, fielding .984 at first. He led the team in hits (14), triples (2), average, total bases (22, 2 ahead of Lien-Hung Chen), RBI (tied with Chen) and slugging while only Hung-Yuan Lin had a better OBP. He tied Richard Hunter and Lourdes Gourriel Sr. for the most triples in the tournament and he was 5th in average, trailing only Ermidelio Urrutia, Dagoberto López, Omar Linares and Richard Vagg. Efraín García beat him out for All-Star 1B honors.

The Chinatrust Whales signed Ho when they were founded on 1997. Ho batted only .218/.289/.285 in 70 games in his rookie year, and struggled in 1998, when he recorded a .200/.360/.200 batting line. He improved a little in 1999, hitting .262/.321/.297 with 16 RBI. His batting average fell to .218 in 2000, and he was limited to 52 games with a .256/.310/.282 batting line in 2001. After batting .167/.214/.417, the Whales released Ho in the middle of the 2002 season. Ho was the defense coach of the Whales in 2003, and became a youth baseball coach.

Overall, Ho had hit .228/.307/.278 in six seasons in the CPBL.

Sources

• Defunct IBAF site
• CPBL Player Page
• Taiwan Baseball Wiki