Jim Traber

Jim Traber is one of those guys who reminds you how wild and wide the baseball life can really get. He came up as a first baseman with the Baltimore Orioles in the mid-80s, showed some pop at the plate, and had a cup of coffee in the big leagues when Baltimore was still living on the fumes of their World Series glory days. What really makes his story interesting, though, is the Japan chapter — he crossed the Pacific to play for the Kintetsu Buffaloes in Nippon Professional Baseball, which in that era was a genuinely adventurous move for an American player. And then, because apparently one career wasn't enough, he pivoted into broadcasting and made a whole second run of it. Born in Columbus, raised in Maryland, Traber is the kind of journeyman whose résumé reads like a passport full of stamps — and I respect that hustle entirely.

Name (English)

Jim Traber

Name (Japanese)

ジム・トレーバー

Reading

じむ・とれーばー

Born

December 26, 1961 (age 64)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Ox

Origin

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Height

182 cm

Occupation

baseball player / American football player

High school

Wilde Lake High School

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%88%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC

Tags

• Ohio
• baseball player
• American football player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.