Hideki Samejima

Hideki Samejima — born in Osaka in the summer of 1973, a baseball player who came up through one of Japan's most unforgiving sports cities. Osaka crowds don't give you a pass; they've seen too much baseball to be impressed easily, which means anyone who carved out a career there had to earn it in a way that quieter cities might not demand. At 178 cm he's not the towering slugger type, so I imagine his game was built on the stuff that doesn't show up on a highlight reel — footwork, reading the pitch, showing up every day when nobody's watching. The kind of guy who just played ball.

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Hideki Samejima is a Japanese baseball player born on July 22, 1973, in Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. He stands 178 cm tall. Most details of his career and personal life are not publicly disclosed.

Name (English)

Hideki Samejima

Name (Japanese)

鮫島秀旗

Reading

さめじま ひでき

Born

July 22, 1973 (age 53)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Ox

Origin

Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Height

178cm

Occupation

Baseball player

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AE%AB%E5%B3%B6%E7%A7%80%E6%97%97
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11674190

Tags

• From Osaka Prefecture
• Baseball player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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