Shogo Kimura

Okay, I'll be honest — when I first saw "baseball player turned cricketer," I had to read it twice. Most retired pros are perfectly content collecting a pension and signing memorabilia; this guy looked at an entirely different sport with a completely different bat and said, yeah, I'm doing that. Born and raised in Osaka's Joto ward, 183 cm tall, and apparently built with way too much competitive energy to just hang it up quietly. There's something genuinely admirable about someone who grinds through a professional athletic career and then, instead of coasting, restarts from zero in a sport that barely registers on Japan's radar. That's not a career pivot, that's a personality. I don't know if he's the best cricketer on the field, but I do know he's probably the most interesting story in the room.

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Shogo Kimura is a Japanese professional athlete born on April 16, 1980, in Joto Ward, Osaka. He attended Jinsei Gakuen High School and later Aichi Gakuin University before building a career as a baseball player. After retiring from baseball, he transitioned to cricket, carving out a rare dual career in two distinct bat-and-ball sports. He stands 183 cm tall and maintains an official website as well as active social media presence under the handle cricketershogo.

Name (English)

Shogo Kimura

Name (Japanese)

木村昇吾

Reading

きむら しょうご

Born

April 16, 1980 (age 46)

Origin

Joto Ward, Osaka, Japan

Height

183cm

Occupation

Baseball player / Cricket player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Monkey

High school

Jinsei Gakuen High School

University

Aichi Gakuin University

• Official sitehttps://shogokimura.net/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/cricketershogo/
• Xhttps://x.com/cricketershogo
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%A8%E6%9D%91%E6%98%87%E5%90%BE
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11518919

Tags

• From Osaka
• Baseball player
• Cricket player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.