{"id":76463,"date":"2025-06-03T15:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T15:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/76463\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T15:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T15:39:13","slug":"sports-illustrated-shigeo-nagashima-beloved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/76463\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Illustrated – Shigeo Nagashima, Beloved\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shigeo Nagashima (center) participates in the Olympic torch relay in 2021 along with Sadaharu Oh and Hideki Matsui. | Mandi Wright-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Former Tokyo Yomiuri Giants third baseman Shigeo Nagashima\u2014one of the most successful and beloved players in the history of Japanese baseball\u2014has died of pneumonia, his former team announced Tuesday. He was 89.<\/p>\n

Nagashima played for the Giants from 1958 to ’74, during which time he became one of the nation’s most famous athletes. He posted a lifetime slash line of .305\/.379\/.540 with 444 home runs and 1,522 RBIs.<\/p>\n

Like his power-hitting teammate in that era\u2014first baseman Sadaharu Oh\u2014Nagashima garnered interest from North American teams. However, he never left Japan, and in fact criticized some players who did.<\/p>\n

That did not blunt his outsized impact on the Japanese stars who came after him, such as Los Angeles Dodgers designated hitter and pitcher Shohei Ohtani\u2014who honored him with an Instagram post.<\/p>\n

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This article was originally published on www.si.com as Shigeo Nagashima, Beloved All-Time Great of Japanese Baseball, Dies at 89<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Nagashima’s accolades included 11 Japan Series titles (to go with two as a manager), five Central League MVP awards, and four Japan Series MVP awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shigeo Nagashima (center) participates in the Olympic torch relay in 2021 along with Sadaharu Oh and Hideki Matsui.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2302],"tags":[5,5965,19356,19360,19354,169,19357,19355,19358,2353,2352,19359,6984],"class_list":{"0":"post-76463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-npb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-daily-news","11":"tag-global-news","12":"tag-inkl","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-news-app","15":"tag-news-headlines","16":"tag-news-today","17":"tag-nippon-professional-baseball","18":"tag-npb","19":"tag-today-news","20":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114620187952893671","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}