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Public records list Masahiro Doi as a baseball player. Masahiro Doi was born in Kashiwara, Osaka Prefecture, Japan on December 8, 1943. That works out to 82 years old in 2026. The listed height is 181 cm.
My Take
Masahiro Doi, born December 8, 1943, in Kashiwara, Osaka Prefecture, entered Nippon Professional Baseball with the Kintetsu Buffaloes in 1962 — as a teenager who had dropped out of Daitetsu High School. He stayed with Kintetsu through 1974, then moved to the franchise that cycled through the names Taiheiyo Club, Crown Lighter, and finally Seibu, retiring in 1981. That's roughly two decades of top-flight professional hitting, which is the part I keep coming back to. Careers that long aren't built on talent alone; they require surviving injuries, managerial changes, and in his case an organization that literally kept changing its identity around him. It's also worth noting what he didn't get. Kintetsu in that era was not a winning club, so much of his prime was spent producing for teams that weren't going anywhere. A 181 cm outfielder who arrived as a teenage phenom and was still in the lineup nineteen seasons later — the longevity impresses me more than any single number would.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Masahiro Doi
- Name (Japanese)
- 土井正博
- Reading
- どい まさひろ
- Born
- December 8, 1943 (age 82)
- Origin
- Kashiwara, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
- Height
- 181 cm
- Occupation
- baseball player
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Goat
2. Links
- Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahiro%20Doi
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9C%9F%E4%BA%95%E6%AD%A3%E5%8D%9A
- Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5357314
3. About this entry
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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.
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When was Masahiro Doi born?
Masahiro Doi was born on December 8, 1943 and is 82 years old.
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Masahiro Doi is from Kashiwara, Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
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Masahiro Doi works as baseball player.
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Masahiro Doi is 181 cm tall.
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