# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/makoto-kozuru
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:30:34.891Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/makoto-kozuru"
name: "Makoto Kozuru"
slug: "makoto-kozuru"
description: "Makoto Kozuru was a Japanese professional baseball player who played in both the Japanese Baseball League and Nippon Professional Baseball. He was the MVP of the Central League in 1950, and was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1980. His nickname was \"The Japanese DiMaggio.\""
tagline: "Japanese baseball player (1922-2003)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Makoto_Kozuru2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1922-12-17"
deathDate: "2003-06-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.86
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.91538
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "ماكوتو كوزورو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto_Kozuru"
    title: "Makoto Kozuru"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E9%B6%B4%E8%AA%A0"
    title: "小鶴誠"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B3%A0%EC%A6%88%EB%A3%A8_%EB%A7%88%EC%BD%94%ED%86%A0"
    title: "고즈루 마코토"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E9%B6%B4%E8%AA%A0"
    title: "小鶴誠"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11035642"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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