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Originally Posted by Jeff Alcorn
Hi again,
After seeing Sean's post that appeared after I hit send on mine, I checked my 2 encyclopedias of Japanese baseball. One of them lists his name as Seiji Shibuya and the other has his name as Seiji Shibutani. The second kanji can be Tani or Ya. There were 3 players that had that last name from 1936 - 2004 (the years covered in my encyclopedias), and one lists all 3 as Shibuya and the other lists 2 as Shibuya and 1 - the Swallows pitcher as Shibutani. I would go with Shibutani since that comes from the Official Encyclopedia while the other with Shibuya is from a fan produced book.
It looks like (from the front of the card) that it is from the 1962 set JCM14e in Gary Engel's book. The checklist lists him as Shibuya.
Sorry for the confusion,
Jeff
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Yeah, that is an easy mistake to make. Those are the same characters for famous Shibuya area in Tokyo so I think everyone reads them that way at first glance. For an online source, his NPB lists him as Shibutani:
https://npb.jp/bis/players/31033825.html
And since his name came up, here are some Masaichi Kaneda cards (Japan's only 400 game winner) from my collection (I have no idea how to make them appear right side up).