Seiichi Uchikawa

Winning a batting title once sets a hitter up for life. Uchikawa won one in each league: Central with Yokohama in 2008, Pacific with SoftBank in 2011, the first man to manage both. That .378 season is still the high mark for a right-handed hitter in Japan. Three clubs, past 2,000 hits, done in 2022. Now he explains it from the booth.

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Name (English)

Seiichi Uchikawa

Name (Japanese)

内川聖一

Reading

うちかわ せいいち

Born

August 4, 1982 (age 44)

Origin

Ōita-shi, Ōita Prefecture, Japan

Height

185 cm

Occupation

baseball player / baseball commentator

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Dog

High school

Oita Prefectural Oita Technical High School

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/uchikawaseiichi01/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiichi%20Uchikawa
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%86%85%E5%B7%9D%E8%81%96%E4%B8%80
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q847901

Tags

• Ōita Prefecture
• baseball player
• baseball commentator

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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