Seiichi Shima
| Date and Place of Birth: | December 15, 1920 Wakayama Prefecture, Japan |
| Date and Place of Death: | March 29, 1945 off coast of Indochina |
| Baseball Experience: | College |
| Position: | Pitcher |
| Rank: | Unknown |
| Military Unit: | Imperial Japanese Army |
| Area Served: | Pacific |
Seiichi Shima was born on December 15, 1920 in Wakayama Prefecture,
Japan. The bespectacled left-hander attended Kaisou Central High School
and was the star of the baseball team. Pitching for Kaisou Central in
the 1939 National High School Baseball Championship, Shima hurled 45
innings and shut out all five of the opposing teams, allowing just eight
hits and striking out 57. He was also Kaisou Central’s clean-up hitter
and went 11 for 20 in the tournament. Amazingly, he pitched back-to-back
no-hitters in the semi-final and final games of the tournament.
Shima entered Meiji University in 1940 and was drafted into the Japanese
Army in 1945. Seiichi Shima died in battle off the coast of Indochina on
March 29, 1945.
He was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008.
Date Added: May 11, 2013
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