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Wally Yonamine

Wally Yonamine in 1951

Outfielder

Born: June 24, 1925
Olowalu, Hawaii Territory

Died: February 28, 2011 (aged 85)
Honolulu, Hawaii

NPB debut

June 19, 1951, for the Yomiuri Giants

Last appearance

October 12, 1962, for the Chunichi Dragons

NPB statistics

Batting average

.311

Hits

1,337

Home runs

Runs batted in

482

Teams

As Player

Yomiuri Giants (1951–1960)
Chunichi Dragons (1961–1962)

As Manager

Chunichi Dragons (1972–1977)

Career highlights and awards

4x Japan Series Champion: 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955
CL MVP (1957)
8× NPB All-Star (1952-1959)
7× Best Nine Award (1952-1958)

Member of the Japanese

Baseball Hall of Fame

Induction

1994

American football career

No. 94

Position:

Running back

Personal information

Height:

5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)

Weight:

180 lb (82 kg)

Career information

High school:

Farrington (Honolulu, Hawaii)

Career history

San Francisco 49ers (1947)

Career NFL statistics

Rushing yards:	74
Receiving yards:	40
Touchdowns:	0
Stats at Pro Football Reference

Wallace Kaname Yonamine (与那嶺要, Yonamine Kaname, June 24, 1925 – February 28, 2011) was a Japanese American multi-sport athlete who played in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Early life

Kaname Yonamine, a Nisei Japanese American, was born in Olowalu, Maui,^[1] Hawaii to parents Matsusai (September 1, 1890 – July 31, 1988) and Kikue (February 14, 1901 – February 26, 1999). Matsusai was an uchinānchu immigrant and Kikue came from Hiroshima.^[1] Yonamine attended Lahainaluna and Wallace Rider Farrington High School.^[2] The name of his high school was the origin of his nickname, originally Wallace, but quickly changed to Wally,^[3] which would later become his legal name.^[1]

Professional football career

Yonamine signed a $14,000 contract, playing running back for the San Francisco 49ers in their second season (1947). Doing so, he became the first football player of Japanese American ancestry to play professional football^[4] (Walter Achiu was the first Asian-American). In his one season with the team, he had 19 carries for 74 yards and caught 3 passes for 40 yards. His football career ended during the off-season, when he broke his wrist playing in an amateur baseball league in Hawaii.^[1]

Professional baseball career

A multi-skilled outfielder, Yonamine was also noted for his flexible batting style and aggressive baserunning during his career with the Yomiuri Giants and Chunichi Dragons. In Japan, Yonamine was a member of four Japan Series Championship teams, the Central League MVP in 1957, a consecutive seven-time Best Nine Award winner (1952–58), an eleven-time All-Star, a three-time batting champion, and the first foreigner to be a manager (Dragons, 1972–77).^{[citation needed]}

Yonamine was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame, admitted in 1994 for his achievements during his 12-year career with the Giants and Dragons.^[1]

Post-career

Yonamine operated a highly successful pearl store, "Wally Yonamine Pearls", with his wife, Jane. The store is located in Roppongi, Tokyo. They also had a branch of their store in California run by their children.^[5] In 2008, Yonamine joined the Japanese Master League team Nagoya 80 D'sers as a coach/part-time player.^[6]

After an extended battle with prostate cancer, Yonamine died on February 28, 2011, aged 85, in Honolulu.^[2]^[7]

Yonamine's grand-nephew, Micah, was selected by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 29th round of the 2019 Major League Baseball draft.^[8]^[9]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Weber, Bruce (March 4, 2011), "Wally Yonamine, 85, Dies; Changed Japanese Baseball", The New York Times
^ ^a ^b Lewis, Ferd (March 1, 2011). "Hawaii sports pioneer Wally Yonamine dies". Star Advertiser. Archived from the original on December 13, 2020. Retrieved December 13, 2020.
^ Fitts 2008, p. 20
^ Fitts 2008, p. 33
^ Gustkey, Earl (June 18, 1989). "WARMING UP TO WALLY : Yonamine, First American to Play in Japan, Was Not an Instant Hit". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on December 13, 2020. Retrieved December 13, 2020.
^ Carlson, Michael (June 2, 2011). "Wally Yonamine: Sportsman who fought prejudice in two sports and in two countries". The Independent. Archived from the original on April 1, 2019. Retrieved December 13, 2020.
^ Song, Jaymes (March 1, 2011), "'Nisei Jackie Robinson' dies at age 85", The Washington Post
^ Baseball America 2020 Prospect Handbook Digital Edition. Simon and Schuster. March 24, 2020. p. 134. ISBN 978-1-932391-94-7. Retrieved December 27, 2021.
^ "Micah Yonamine Minor Leagues Statistics & History". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference. Retrieved December 27, 2021.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wally Kaname Yonamine.

Career statistics from Baseball Reference (Minors)
(in Japanese) Japan Baseball Hall of Fame
Dodgers to celebrate Japanese American Community Night
"Densho interview: Wally Yonamine". December 16, 2003. Retrieved June 13, 2021.

Central League MVP Award

1950: Kozuru
1951: Kawakami
1952: Bessho
1953: Otomo
1954: Sugishita
1955: Kawakami
1956: Bessho
1957: Yonamine
1958: Fujita
1959: Fujita
1960: Akiyama
1961: Nagashima
1962: Murayama
1963: Nagashima
1964: Oh
1965: Oh
1966: Nagashima
1967: Oh
1968: Nagashima
1969: Oh
1970: Oh
1971: Nagashima
1972: Horiuchi
1973: Oh
1974: Oh
1975: Yamamoto
1976: Oh
1977: Oh
1978: Wakamatsu
1979: Enatsu
1980: Yamamoto
1981: Egawa
1982: Nakao
1983: Hara
1984: Kinugasa
1985: Bass
1986: Kitabeppu
1987: Yamakura
1988: G. Kaku
1989: Cromartie
1990: Saito
1991: Sasaoka
1992: Howell
1993: Furuta
1994: Kuwata
1995: O'Malley
1996: H. Matsui
1997: Furuta
1998: Sasaki
1999: Noguchi
2000: H. Matsui
2001: Petagine
2002: H. Matsui
2003: Igawa
2004: Kawakami
2005: Kanemoto
2006: Fukudome
2007: Ogasawara
2008: Ramírez
2009: Ramírez
2010: Wada
2011: Asao
2012: Abe
2013: Balentien
2014: Sugano
2015: Yamada
2016: Arai
2017: Maru
2018: Maru
2019: Sakamoto
2020: Sugano
2021: M. Murakami
2022: M. Murakami
2023: S. Murakami
2024: Sugano

Chunichi Dragons managers

Yutaka Ikeda (1936)
Kaishi Masu (1937)
Kaishi Masu (1938–1939)
Tokuro Konishi (1939–1941)
Chikayoshi Honda (1941–1942)
Kaishi Masu (1943)
Daisuke Miyake (1944)
Yoshikazu Takeuchi (1946)
Kiyoshi Sugiura (1946–1948)
Shunichi Amachi (1949–1951)
Michinoru Tsubouchi (1952–1953)
Shunichi Amachi (1954)
Akira Noguchi (1955–1956)
Shunichi Amachi (1957–1958)
Wataru Nōnin (1960–1962)
Kiyoshi Sugiura (1963–1964)
Michio Nishizawa (1964–1967)
Shigeru Sugishita (1968)
Itsurō Honda (1968)
Shigeru Mizuhara (1969–1971)
Wally Yonamine (1972–1977)
Toshio Naka (1978–1980)
Sadao Kondō (1981–1983)
Kazuhiro Yamauchi (1984–1986)
Morimichi Takagi (1986)
Senichi Hoshino (1987–1991)
Morimichi Takagi (1992–1995)
Sadayuki Tokutake (1995)
Ikuo Shimano (1995)
Senichi Hoshino (1996–2001)
Hisashi Yamada (2002–2003)
Kyosuke Sasaki (2003)
Hiromitsu Ochiai (2004–2011)
Morimichi Takagi (2012–2013)
Motonobu Tanishige (2014–2016)
Shigekazu Mori (2016–2018)
Tsuyoshi Yoda (2019–2021)
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami (2022–present)

v t e Members of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
1950s inductees	Matsutarō Shōriki (1959) Hiroshi Hiraoka (1959) Yukio Aoi (1959) Shin Hashido (1959) Kiyoshi Oshikawa (1959) Jiro Kuji (1959) Eiji Sawamura (1959) Iso Abe (1959)
1960s inductees	Victor Starffin (1960) Yutaka Ikeda (1962) Haruyasu Nakajima (1963) Tadashi Wakabayashi (1964) Masaru Kageura (1965) Tetsuharu Kawakami (1965) Tsunetaro Moriyama (1966) Kazuto Tsuruoka (1969)
1970s inductees	Shunichi Amachi (1970) Nobuaki Nidegawa (1970) Shuichi Ishimoto (1972) Sadayoshi Fujimoto (1974) Fumio Fujimura (1974) Hideo Fujimoto (1976) Shigeru Mizuhara (1977) Michio Nishizawa (1977) Kenjiro Matsuki (1978) Shinji Hamazaki (1978) Takehiko Bessho (1979)
1980s inductees	Hiroshi Ohshita (1980) Makoto Kozuru (1980) Shigeru Chiba (1980) Tokuji Iida (1981) Yoshiyuki Iwamoto (1981) Osamu Mihara (1983) Shinji Kirihara (1984) Shigeru Sugishita (1985) Katsumi Shiraishi (1985) Atsushi Aramaki (1985) Takeo Akuta (1988) Shigeo Nagashima (1988) Kaoru Bettou (1988) Masaichi Nagata (1988) Saburo Yokozawa (1988) Yukio Nishimoto (1988) Masaichi Kaneda (1988) Hidenosuke Shima (1989) Katsuya Nomura (1989) Jiro Noguchi (1989)
1990s inductees	Juzo Sanada (1990) Isao Harimoto (1990) Shigeru Makino (1991) Osamu Tsutsui (1991) Kichiro Shimaoka (1991) Tatsuro Hirooka (1992) Michinori Tsubouchi (1992) Masao Yoshida (1992) Yoshio Yoshida (1992) Kazuhisa Inao (1993) Minoru Murayama (1993) Sadaharu Oh (1994) Wally Yonamine (1994) Shosei Go (1995) Tadashi Sugiura (1995) Tokichiro Ishii (1995) Motoshi Fujita (1996) Sachio Kinugasa (1996) Katsuo Osugi (1997) Futoshi Nakanishi (1999) Yoshinori Hirose (1999) Takeshi Koba (1999) Sadao Kondo (1999)
2000s inductees	Tetsuya Yoneda (2000) Rikuo Nemoto (2001) Masaaki Koyama (2001) Kazuhiro Yamauchi (2002) Keishi Suzuki (2002) Yutaka Fukumoto (2002) Kenjiro Tamiya (2002) Lefty O'Doul (2002) Masaoka Shiki (2002) Toshiharu Ueda (2003) Junzo Sekine (2003) Horace Wilson (2003) Sakae Suzuka (2003) Akira Ogi (2004) Noboru Akiyama (2004) Choji Murata (2005) Masaaki Mori (2005) Masayori Shimura (2005) Hiromitsu Kadota (2006) Morimichi Takagi (2006) Hisashi Yamada (2006) Yasumitsu Toyoda (2006) Hiromori Kawashima (2006) Takao Kajimoto (2007) Reiichi Matsunaga (2007) Koji Yamamoto (2008) Tsuneo Horiuchi (2008) Tsutomu Wakamatsu (2009) Seiichi Shima (2008)
2010s inductees	Osamu Higashio (2010) Hiromitsu Ochiai (2011) Mutsuo Minagawa (2011) Manabu Kitabeppu (2012) Tsunemi Tsuda (2012) Yutaka Ohno (2013) Hideo Nomo (2014) Koji Akiyama (2014) Kazuhiro Sasaki (2014) Atsuya Furuta (2015) Kihachi Enomoto (2016) Kimiyasu Kudoh (2016) Masaki Saito (2016) Tsutomu Ito (2017) Masaji Hiramatsu (2017) Senichi Hoshino (2017) Hideki Matsui (2018) Tomoaki Kanemoto (2018) Kazuyoshi Tatsunami (2019) Hiroshi Gondoh (2019)
2020s inductees	Koichi Tabuchi (2020) Kazuo Sayama (2021) Katsuji Kawashima (2021) Shigeyoshi Matsumae (2022) Shingo Takatsu (2022) Masa Yamamoto (2022) Alex Ramírez (2023) Randy Bass (2023) Yūji Koseki (2023)

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