# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/masayuki-kakefu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:27:18.813Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/masayuki-kakefu"
name: "Masayuki Kakefu"
slug: "masayuki-kakefu"
description: "Masayuki Kakefu  is a Japanese former professional baseball third baseman. He played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hanshin Tigers from 1974 to 1988. Known as “Mr. Tigers”, the popular slugger batted .292 lifetime for the Tigers in his career while hitting over 300 home runs and driving 1,019 runs batted in to go along with three home run titles and seven selections to the Best Nine Award. In 1985, he hit 40 home runs and batted .300 as the Tigers went all the way to the Japan Series and won it for the first time in team history. Kakefu took part in what has been called one of the most famous moments in Tiger history on the game played on April 17, 1985 when he hit the second of three consecutive home runs against the Yomiuri Giants."
tagline: "Japanese professional baseball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kakefumasayuki_150829.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1955-05-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           67.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.42586
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 141000
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/kakefu_dokyu"
    handle:    "kakefu_dokyu"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUWExZxJm7vbWuQ_73_XOgA"
    handle:    "@kakefumasayuki"
    followers: 141000
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%83%D9%89_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%88"
    title: "ماسايوكى كاكيفو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayuki_Kakefu"
    title: "Masayuki Kakefu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%8E%9B%E5%B8%83%E9%9B%85%E4%B9%8B"
    title: "掛布雅之"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B0%80%EC%BC%80%ED%9B%84_%EB%A7%88%EC%82%AC%EC%9C%A0%ED%82%A4"
    title: "가케후 마사유키"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%8E%9B%E5%B8%83%E9%9B%85%E4%B9%8B"
    title: "掛布雅之"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11078072"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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