Seiichi Shima

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Seiichi Shima
Indochina
Batted: Left
Threw: Left
Member of the Japanese
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction2008

Seiichi Shima (嶋清一, Shima Seiichi, December 15, 1920 – March 29, 1945) was a baseball player who pitched for Kaisou Central High School and

Indochina.[1] He was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008.[2]

Shima represented Kaisou Central in the 1939 Japanese High School Baseball Championship, where he shut out all five of the opposing teams, only allowed five hits, struck out 57 batters, and pitched no-hitters in the semifinal and final rounds. Shima began to play for Meiji University in 1940.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ "Seiichi Shima". Baseball's Greatest Sacrifice. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  2. ^ "2008 Hall of Famers Elected". The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Retrieved 28 December 2018.