Shosei Go

{{Short description|Taiwanese baseball player}} {{Infobox baseball biography | name = Shosei Go | birth_name = {{cjkv|c=吳波|j=吳波|r=Go Ha|p=Wu Bo}} | image = Go Shosei.JPG | image_size = | caption = | position = Outfielder, Pitcher | birth_date = {{birth date|1916|06|28|mf=y}} | birth_place = Taiwan | death_date = {{death date and age|1987|06|07|1916|06|28}} | death_place = | bats = Left | throws = Left | debutleague = Japanese Baseball League | debutdate = | debutyear = 1937 | debutteam = Tokyo Kyojin | finaldate = | finalyear = 1957 | finalteam =Mainichi Orions |finalleague = JBL/NPB | statleague = Career hitting | stat1label = Batting average | stat1value = .272 | stat2label = Hits | stat2value = 1,326 | stat3label = Runs batted in | stat3value = 389 | stat4label = Stolen bases |stat4value = 381 | stat5label = Win–loss record | stat5value = 15–7 | stat6label = Earned run average | stat6value = 3.48 | stat7label = Strikeouts | stat7value = 66 | teams = '''As Player''' *Tokyo Kyojin ({{Baseball year|1937}}–{{Baseball year|1943}}) *Hanshin/Osaka Tigers ({{Baseball year|1944}}–{{Baseball year|1949}}) *Mainichi Orions ({{Baseball year|1950}}–{{Baseball year|1957}}) | highlights = * Japanese Baseball League MVP (1943) * Pitched a no-hitter on June 16, 1946 * Japan Series champion (1950) | hoflink = Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame | hoftype = Japanese | hofdate = 1995 (elected by the Special Committee) }} '''Shosei Go''' ({{zh|t=吳昌征|poj=Gô͘ Chhiong-cheng|p=Wú Chāngzhēng}}; Japanese: ''Go Shōsei''; June 28, 1916 – June 7, 1987) was a Taiwanese two-way baseball player who played for the Tokyo Giants (1937–1943, now the Yomiuri Giants), Hanshin Tigers (1944–1949) and Mainichi Orions (1950–1957, now the Chiba Lotte Marines). Only 5-foot-6 and 140 pounds, he was nicknamed "The Human Locomotive" due to his speed. As a left-handed outfielder, he won two batting titles and a stolen base title.

As a pitcher, the bulk of his appearances were in 1946, when he went 14-6 with a 3.03 ERA and 16 complete games. Go also threw the first postwar no-hitter, against the Tokyo Senators in 1946. He hit the first ever home run in a Japan Series, doing so in Game 2 on November 23, 1950.{{cn|date=December 2025}}

== Early life == Go, born '''Wu Bo''' ({{zh|t=吳波}}, played on the Kano baseball team and participated in the National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament in 1935 and 1936. After graduating from Kagi, he signed with the Tokyo Giants.<ref>{{cite book|last=Morris|first=Andrew|title=Colonial Project, National Game: A History of Baseball in Taiwan|publisher=University of California Press|date=2011}}</ref>

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==External links== {{baseballstats |mlb= |espn= |br= |fangraphs= |cube= |brm=go----000sho}} *[http://english.baseball-museum.or.jp/baseball_hallo/detail/detail_116.html Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum]

{{s-start}} {{s-ach|aw}} {{succession box | before = Shigeru Mizuhara | title = Japanese Baseball League MVP| years = {{Baseball year|1943}} | after = Tadashi Wakabayashi}} {{s-end}} {{Japanese Baseball League MVPs}} {{Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Go, Shosei}} Category:1916 births Category:1987 deaths Category:Mainichi Orions players Category:Hanshin Tigers players Category:Japanese people of Taiwanese descent Category:Naturalized citizens of Japan Category:Baseball players from Kaohsiung Category:Taiwanese emigrants to Japan Category:Taiwanese expatriate baseball players in Japan Category:Japanese people of Chinese descent Category:Sportspeople of Chinese descent