Japanese baseball player and manager Baseball player Shigeru Chiba Second baseman Born: (1919-05-10)10 May 1919 Saijō, Ehime, Japan Died: 9 December 2002(2002-12-09) (aged 83) Batted: Right Threw: Right debut 1938, for the Tokyo Kyojin Last appearance 1956, for the Yomiuri Giants Teams As player * Tokyo Kyojin/Yomiuri Giants (1938–1941, 1946–1956) As Manager * Kintetsu Buffalo (1959–1961) Member of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame Induction| 1980 Shigeru Chiba (千葉 茂, Chiba Shigeru, 10 May 1919 – 9 December 2002) was a Japanese baseball second baseman who played with the Tokyo Kyojin/Yomiuri Giants from 1938 to 1941, and again from 1946 to 1956. He later managed the Kintetsu Buffalo from 1959 to 1961, and was elected to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1980. ## External links[edit] * Baseball-Reference Authority control General| * VIAF * 1 * WorldCat National libraries| * Japan Scientific databases| * CiNii (Japan) This biographical article relating to a Japanese baseball second baseman is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. | * v * t * e *[v]: View this template *[t]: Discuss this template *[e]: Edit this template