# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shigeru-sugishita
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:22:16.956Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shigeru-sugishita"
name: "Shigeru Sugishita"
slug: "shigeru-sugishita"
description: "Shigeru Sugishita  was a Japanese professional baseball pitcher and coach. Renowned for his forkball, Sugishita dominated the Central League from 1950–1955, winning more than 30 games twice, and garnering three Eiji Sawamura Awards. Sugishita usually split his time between starting games and pitching in relief. He played 11 seasons, ten of them for the Chunichi/Nagoya Dragons."
tagline: "Japanese baseball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sugishita_Shigeru.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1925-09-17"
deathDate: "2023-06-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.25
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.991124
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "شيجيرو سوجيشيتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Sugishita"
    title: "Shigeru Sugishita"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%89%E4%B8%8B%E8%8C%82"
    title: "杉下茂"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8A%A4%EA%B8%B0%EC%8B%9C%ED%83%80_%EC%8B%9C%EA%B2%8C%EB%A3%A8"
    title: "스기시타 시게루"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%89%E4%B8%8B%E8%8C%82"
    title: "杉下茂"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11095133"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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