Toyo Sugiyama

Toyo Sugiyama (杉山 東洋生)

• Bats Left, Throws Left

• High School Chukyo Shogyo High School

• Born 1921 in Aichi Prefecture Japan
• Died June 1945 in the Philippines

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Biographical Information

First baseman Toyo Sugiyama hit .168/.230/.177 in 49 games for Yamato in 1942. He scored only one run. The next year, Sugiyama was drafted into the Japanese military. He died in combat in the Philippines two years after that.

Source: Japanbaseballdaily.com by Gary Garland