1960 Nippon Professional Baseball season

1960 NPB season
League	Nippon Professional Baseball
Sport	Baseball
Central League Pennant
League champions	Taiyo Whales
Runners-up	Yomiuri Giants
Season MVP	Noboru Akiyama (TAI)
Pacific League Pennant
League champions	Daimai Orions
Runners-up	Nankai Hawks
Season MVP	Kazuhiro Yamauchi (DAI)
Japan Series
Champions	Taiyo Whales
Runners-up	Daimai Orions
Finals MVP	Akihito Kondo (TAI)
NPB seasons
	← 1959 1961 →

Last updated April 29, 2019

The 1960 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the eleventh season of operation of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Nippon Professional Baseball or NPB is the highest level of baseball in Japan. Locally, it is often called Puro Yakyū (プロ野球), meaning Professional Baseball. Outside Japan, it is often just referred to as "Japanese baseball". The roots of the league can be traced back to the formation of the "Greater Japan Tokyo Baseball Club" in Tokyo, founded 1934 and the original circuit for the sport in the Empire two years later - Japanese Baseball League (1936-1949), and surprisingly even continued to play through the dark years of total warfare with Japan's invasion of Manchuria in 1931, and intervening in the Chinese Civil War in 1937 with the wider Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), and into the greater World War II (1939-1945).

Regular season

Standings

Central League regular season standings
Team	G	W	L	T	Pct.	GB
Taiyo Whales	130	70	56	4	.554	—
Yomiuri Giants	130	66	61	3	.519	4.5
Osaka Tigers	130	64	62	4	.508	6.0
Hiroshima Carp	130	62	61	7	.504	6.5
Chunichi Dragons	130	63	67	0	.485	9.0
Kokutetsu Swallows	130	54	72	4	.431	16.0

Pacific League regular season standings
Team	G	W	L	T	Pct.	GB
Daimai Orions	133	82	48	3	.631	—
Nankai Hawks	136	78	52	6	.600	4.0
Nishitetsu Lions	136	70	60	6	.538	12.0
Hankyu Braves	136	65	65	6	.500	17.0
Toei Flyers	132	52	78	2	.400	30.0
Kintetsu Buffaloes	131	43	87	1	.331	39.0

Postseason

Japan Series

CL Taiyo Whales (4) vs. PL Daimai Orions (0)

Game	Date	Score	Location	Time	Attendance
1	October 11	Daimai Orions – 0, Taiyo Whales – 1	Kawasaki Stadium	2:12	18,354^[1]
2	October 12	Daimai Orions – 2, Taiyo Whales – 3	Kawasaki Stadium	2:29	18,421^[1]
3	October 14	Taiyo Whales – 6, Daimai Orions – 5	Korakuen Stadium	2:38	31,586^[1]
4	October 15	Taiyo Whales – 1, Daimai Orions – 0	Korakuen Stadium	2:44	32,409^[1]

League leaders

Central League

Batting leaders
Stat	Player	Team	Total
Batting average	Shigeo Nagashima	Yomiuri Giants	.334
Home runs	Katsumi Fujimoto	Osaka Tigers	22
Runs batted in	Katsumi Fujimoto	Osaka Tigers	76
Runs	Toshio Naka	Chunichi Dragons	80
Hits	Shigeo Nagashima	Yomiuri Giants	151
Stolen bases	Toshio Naka	Chunichi Dragons	50

Pitching leaders
Stat	Player	Team	Total
Wins	Ritsuo Horimoto	Yomiuri Giants	29
Losses	Masaichi Kaneda	Kokutetsu Swallows	22
Earned run average	Noboru Akiyama	Taiyo Whales	1.75
Strikeouts	Masaichi Kaneda	Kokutetsu Swallows	284
Innings pitched	Ritsuo Horimoto	Yomiuri Giants	364²⁄₃

Pacific League

Batting leaders
Stat	Player	Team	Total
Batting average	Kihachi Enomoto	Daimai Orions	.344
Home runs	Kazuhiro Yamauchi	Daimai Orions	32
Runs batted in	Kazuhiro Yamauchi	Daimai Orions	103
Runs	Kihachi Enomoto	Daimai Orions	94
Hits	Kihachi Enomoto	Daimai Orions	170
Stolen bases	Chico Barbon	Hankyu Braves	32

Pitching leaders
Stat	Player	Team	Total
Wins	Shoichi Ono	Daimai Orions	33
Losses	Masayuki Dobashi	Toei Flyers	23
Earned run average	Shoichi Ono	Daimai Orions	1.98
Strikeouts	Tadashi Sugiura	Nankai Hawks	317
Innings pitched	Tadashi Sugiura	Nankai Hawks	332²⁄₃

Awards

Most Valuable Player
- Noboru Akiyama, Taiyo Whales (CL)
- Kazuhiro Yamauchi, Daimai Orions (PL)
Rookie of the Year
- Ritsuo Horimoto, Yomiuri Giants (CL)
- No PL recipient
Ritsuo Horimoto was a Japanese baseball pitcher.
The Yomiuri Giants are a professional baseball team based in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. The team competes in the Central League in Nippon Professional Baseball. They play their home games in the Tokyo Dome, opened in 1988. The team's owner is the Yomiuri Group, a media conglomerate which includes two newspapers and a television network.
Eiji Sawamura Award
- Ritsuo Horimoto, Yomiuri Giants (CL)

The Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award is an honor given annually in baseball to two outstanding players in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), one each for the Central League and Pacific League.

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Kazuhiro Yamauchi was a Japanese baseball player and manager. He played for the Mainichi Orions, the Hanshin Tigers and the Hiroshima Toyo Carp over the span of an 18 season-long career (1952–1970).

Central League Best Nine Award winners
Position	Player	Team
Pitcher	Noboru Akiyama	Taiyo Whales
Catcher	Kiyoshi Doi	Taiyo Whales
First baseman	Kazuhiko Kondo	Taiyo Whales
Second baseman	Noboru Inoue	Chunichi Dragons
Third baseman	Shigeo Nagashima	Yomiuri Giants
Shortstop	Yoshio Yoshida	Osaka Tigers
Outfielder	Toru Mori	Chunichi Dragons
	Teruo Namiki	Osaka Tigers
	Toshio Naka	Chunichi Dragons

Pacific League Best Nine Award winners
Position	Player	Team
Pitcher	Shoichi Ono	Daimai Orions
Catcher	Katsuya Nomura	Nankai Hawks
First baseman	Kihachi Enomoto	Daimai Orions
Second baseman	Akira Ogi	Nishitetsu Lions
Third baseman	Akitoshi Kodama	Kintetsu Buffaloes
Shortstop	Yasumitsu Toyoda	Nishitetsu Lions
Outfielder	Kazuhiro Yamauchi	Daimai Orions
	Kenjiro Tamiya	Daimai Orions
	Isao Harimoto	Toei Flyers

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References

1 2 3 4 1960年度日本シリーズ　試合結果 (in Japanese). Nippon Professional Baseball . Retrieved April 27, 2010.

Johnson, Daniel E. (July 2006). Japanese Baseball: A Statistical Handbook. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-2841-0.

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