Kichiro Shimaoka

Kichiro Shimaoka (島岡 吉郎)

• School Meiji University
• Born June 4, 1911 in Nagano, Nagano Japan
• Died April 11, 1989

Biographical Information

Kichiro Shimaoka was Meiji University's manager from 1952 to 1988. His teams won the Tokyo Big6 Baseball League pennant fifteen times, five All-Japan University Baseball Championships, and two Japan-U.S. University Championships. He also managed the Japanese national team in the 1954.

Shimaoka was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991.