Yoshiro Sotokoba

I'll be honest, when I hear "right-handed pitcher born in 1945, grew up in postwar Kagoshima," I just sit up a little straighter. This is a guy from Izumi, that quiet crane-wintering town in southern Japan, who came up in an era when playing ball meant grinding it out with nowhere near the facilities or money modern athletes take for granted. At 175cm he was a solid frame for his generation, and I picture the classic workhorse type who pitched on guts and repetition rather than flash. The records here are thin, and I'm not going to invent highlights I can't back up, but the silhouette is unmistakable to me: a stubborn, blue-collar craftsman who said little and just kept throwing. I've always had a soft spot for that kind of unglamorous lifer, and he reads like one to me.

Yoshiro Sotokoba is a Japanese baseball player born on June 1, 1945, in Izumi, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Standing 175 cm tall, he belongs to the Gemini zodiac sign and was born in the Year of the Rooster. Most details of his personal and professional life are not publicly available.

Name (English)

Yoshiro Sotokoba

Name (Japanese)

外木場義郎

Reading

そとこば よしろう

Born

June 1, 1945 (age 81)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Year of the Rooster

Origin

Izumi, Kagoshima, Japan

Height

175cm

Occupation

Baseball player

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%96%E6%9C%A8%E5%A0%B4%E7%BE%A9%E9%83%8E

Tags

• From Kagoshima Prefecture
• Baseball player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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