Shinji Hata

Shinji Hata is one of those guys where the few details you do know paint a surprisingly vivid picture. That's a lot of natural force packed into one hometown. At 180cm he would've cut a solid figure on the diamond, and players who came up in that late-Showa era had a particular grit to them — no fancy analytics, just grind and instinct. I don't have a highlight reel burned in my memory for him, but there's something I genuinely respect about the guys who did the work without ending up all over the sports pages. Sometimes the most dependable player on the field is the one nobody writes the big profile about.

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Shinji Hata is a Japanese baseball player born on July 29, 1962, in Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture. He stands 180 cm tall. Most personal and career details remain private or unknown.

Name (English)

Shinji Hata

Name (Japanese)

秦真司

Reading

はた しんじ

Born

July 29, 1962 (age 64)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Tiger

Origin

Naruto, Tokushima, Japan

Height

180cm

Occupation

Baseball player

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A7%A6%E7%9C%9F%E5%8F%B8
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11596059

Tags

• From Tokushima Prefecture
• Baseball player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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