Tokuro Konishi

Tokuro Konishi (小西 得郎)

• School Meiji University
• High School Nihon Gakuin High School

• Born July 10, 1894 in Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
• Died June 9, 1977

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Biographical Information

Tokuro Konishi managed and coached in Nippon Pro Baseball for 17 years.

Konishi managed the Dai Tokyo club from 1936 to 1938, and he jumped to the Nagoya baseball club as their manager from 1939 to 1941. He was named the first manager of the Shochiku Robins when the Japanese Professional Baseball League split into two leagues in 1950, and he led the Robins to the Central League title. The Robins lost to the Mainichi Orions in the first Nippon Series - the 1950 Nippon Series; Konishi resigned after the series. He coached the Robins from 1952 to 1953, and he became a broadcaster for the NHK in 1955. He was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971.

Related Sites

• Stats at japanesebaseball.com
• Wiki Japan