# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wally-yonamine
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:40:52.518Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wally-yonamine"
name: "Wally Yonamine"
slug: "wally-yonamine"
description: "Wallace Kaname Yonamine  was a Japanese-American multi-sport athlete. He played 12 seasons of professional baseball in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball with the Yomiuri Giants (1951–1960) and the Chunichi Dragons (1961–1962). He also played a single season of professional football with the San Francisco 49ers of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC)."
tagline: "American football running back (1925-2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wally_Yonamine_1951_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1925-06-24"
deathDate: "2011-02-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.831186666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Yonamine"
    title: "Wally Yonamine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "والى يونامين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Yonamine"
    title: "Wally Yonamine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%88%87%E9%82%A3%E5%B6%BA%E8%A6%81"
    title: "與那嶺要"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%8E%E9%82%A3%E5%B6%BA%E8%A6%81"
    title: "与那嶺要"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9A%94%EB%82%98%EB%AF%B8%EB%84%A4_%EA%B0%80%EB%82%98%EB%A9%94"
    title: "요나미네 가나메"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q187799"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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