Shigeru Chiba

was a Japanese baseball second baseman who played with the Tokyo Kyojin/Yomiuri Giants from 1938 to 1941, and again from 1946 to 1956. He later managed the Kintetsu Buffalo from 1959 to 1961, and was elected to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1980. External links 1919 births 2002 deaths People from Saijō, Ehime Baseball people from Ehime Prefecture Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame inductees Japanese baseball players Managers of baseball teams in Japan Nippon Professional Baseball second basemen Nippon Professional Baseball third basemen Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes managers Yomiuri Giants players 20th-century Japanese people