Toshio Choshi

Toshio Choshi — and yeah, that surname immediately made me do a double-take, because Choshi is also the name of a fishing port city in Chiba, so it feels like meeting someone named "Portland Johnson" or something. Born in 1961, which puts him squarely in Japan's high-growth era, the kind of childhood where you played catch in vacant lots before the condos showed up. A 179cm infielder who won a batting title at Hosei and went first round to the Yokohama Taiyo Whales — solid rather than flashy, but that's kind of the point, isn't it? The guys who kept the roster together, ground out at-bats, held their position without making Sports Center, are the ones who actually made the sport work. He later spent years passing that craft on as a coach, which honestly says something about his personality. I respect that kind of career more than I probably should.

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Toshio Choshi (born August 24, 1961) is a Japanese former professional baseball infielder and coach from Kamisu, Ibaraki. Standing 179 cm tall, he won a Tokyo Big6 batting title at Hosei University and joined the Yokohama Taiyo Whales as their first-round pick in the 1983 draft.

Name (English)

Toshio Choshi

Name (Japanese)

銚子利夫

Reading

ちょうし としお

Born

August 24, 1961 (age 65)

Origin

Kamisu, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

Height

179cm

Occupation

Baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Ox

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%8A%9A%E5%AD%90%E5%88%A9%E5%A4%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11650215

Tags

• baseball player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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