Shigeru Chiba (baseball)

Shigeru Chiba (千葉 茂, Chiba Shigeru, 10 May 1919 – 9 December 2002) was a Japanese baseball second baseman who played with the Tokyo Kyojin/Yomiuri Giants from 1938 to 1941, and again from 1946 to 1956. He later managed the Kintetsu Buffalo from 1959 to 1961, and was elected to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1980.