# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hideki-irabu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:05:10.204Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hideki-irabu"
name: "Hideki Irabu"
slug: "hideki-irabu"
description: "Hideki Irabu  was a Japanese professional baseball player. He played professionally in both Japan and North America. Irabu played for the Lotte Orions / Chiba Lotte Marines and Hanshin Tigers of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and for the New York Yankees, Montreal Expos, and Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB)."
tagline: "Japanese baseball player (1969–2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hideki_Irabu_in_2009.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1969-05-05"
deathDate: "2011-07-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.76
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.19881466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%8A%E8%89%AF%E9%83%A8%E7%A7%80%E8%BC%9D"
    title: "伊良部秀輝"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%88"
    title: "هيديكى ايرابو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideki_Irabu"
    title: "Hideki Irabu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideki_Irabu"
    title: "Hideki Irabu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideki_Irabu"
    title: "Hideki Irabu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideki_Irabu"
    title: "Hideki Irabu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%8A%E8%89%AF%E9%83%A8%E7%A7%80%E8%BC%9D"
    title: "伊良部秀輝"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%B4%EB%9D%BC%EB%B6%80_%ED%9E%88%EB%8D%B0%ED%82%A4"
    title: "이라부 히데키"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideki_Irabu"
    title: "Hideki Irabu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideki_Irabu"
    title: "Hideki Irabu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideki_Irabu"
    title: "Hideki Irabu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%83%2C_%D0%A5%D0%B8%D0%B4%D1%8D%D0%BA%D0%B8"
    title: "Ирабу, Хидэки"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q485712"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump