1956 Goodwill Baseball Tour - Yomiuri Shimbun Walter O'Malley The Official Website



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1956 Japan Tour
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Dodgers vs. All-Central League at Korakuen Stadium, Tokyo  
Dodgers 7, All-Central 1

Dodgers 4 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 7 9 1
All-Central 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 2

WP — Clem Labine. LP — Shoichi Kaneda. HR: Roy Campanella, 2.

Dodger Record 1-1.

GAME NOTES: The Dodgers jumped out of the gate in the first inning to score four runs and were never headed. Catcher Roy Campanella belted a grand slam which scored Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider and Gil Hodges. Snider’s single was his first hit in Japan. In the third inning, Campy made it 6-0 with his second homer of the game, scoring Hodges who had walked. All-Central League scored in the last of the ninth on a RBI double by Andy Miyamoto of the Yomiuri Giants. Dodger starter Clem Labine went the distance for the victory, allowing four hits. Shoichi Kaneda of the Kokutetsu Swallows left the game after loading the bases in the first inning. Noboru Akiyama, of the Taiyo Whales, gave up Campanella’s grand slam and also his two-run homer. Southpaw Kaneda, the 1956 Central League Pitcher of the Year, had 20 or more wins for 14 consecutive seasons with the Swallows (1951-64). Known as the “greatest Japanese pitcher of all-time,” he also managed the Lotte Orions to the Japan Series championship in 1974. In 1988, Kaneda was inducted into the Japan Baseball Hall of Fame.



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