Tokuji Iida

Born in Yokohama in 1924 — a time when Japan was a completely different world — Tokuji Iida lived through war and rebuilding, and somehow through all of it he kept playing baseball. That, to me, says everything. At 173 cm he probably cut a solid figure at the plate for his era, and the Baseball Hall of Fame induction is the kind of honor you simply cannot manufacture: it comes from decades of quiet, stubborn excellence that teammates and fans never forgot. I'll be honest, the detailed stats on this guy aren't splashed everywhere in English, but that almost adds to the mystique — a pre-television-era craftsman who did the work before anyone had a highlight reel to prove it. Yokohama, the sea breeze, postwar Japan finding its footing, and one ballplayer grinding through it all. I've got genuine respect for that kind of career.

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Tokuji Iida was a Japanese professional baseball player born on April 6, 1924, in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. Standing 173 cm tall, he built a career distinguished enough to earn induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. He passed away on June 19, 2000.

Name (English)

Tokuji Iida

Name (Japanese)

飯田徳治

Reading

いいだ とくじ

Born

April 6, 1924 – June 19, 2000

Origin

Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Height

173 cm

Occupation

Baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rat

Awards & achievements

• Baseball Hall of Fame (year unknown)

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A3%AF%E7%94%B0%E5%BE%B3%E6%B2%BB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11666537

Tags

• From Kanagawa Prefecture
• Baseball player

Last updated

November 2, 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.