Kaoru Betto

Kaoru Betto 別当 薫
Outfielder
Born: (1920-08-23)August 23, 1920 Nishinomiya, Hyōgo
Died: April 16, 1999(1999-04-16) (aged 78)
Batted: Right	Threw: Right
Professional debut
NPB: 1948 for the Ōsaka Tigers
Last professional appearance
NPB: 1957 for the Mainichi Orions
NPB statistics
Batting average	.302
Hits	965
RBIs	549
Teams
As a player Ōsaka Tigers (1948–1949) Mainichi Orions (1950–1957) As a manager Mainichi Orions/Mainichi Daimai Orions (1952, 1954–1959) Kintetsu Buffaloes (1962–1964) Taiyō Whales/Yokohama Taiyō Whales (1968–1972, 1977–1979) Hiroshima Toyo Carp (1973)
Career highlights and awards
1950 Pacific League MVP 1950 Japan Series champion 1950 Japan Series MVP
Member of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
Inducted	1988
Election Method	Selection Committee for Players
Last update: November 24, 2009

Kaoru Betto (別当 薫, Bettō Kaoru, born August 23, 1920 in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo) was a Nippon Professional Baseball player. After playing for the Ōsaka Tigers for two years, Betto played for the Mainichi Orions from 1950 to 1957. In his first season with the Orions, Betto won the NPB's first Pacific League MVP Award and helped lead the team to victory in the first Japan Series.

A t-shirt featuring a cartoon image of Kaoru Betto was worn by Jeff Bridges' characters in four films, The Fisher King,^[1] Cold Feet, Tron: Legacy^{[citation needed]} and The Big Lebowski.^[2]

External links

• Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from Japanesebaseball.com

References

v t e Pacific League MVP Award 1950: Betto 1951: Yamamoto 1952: Yuki 1953: Okamoto 1954: Oshita 1955: Iida 1956: Nakanishi 1957: Inao 1958: Inao 1959: Sugiura 1960: Yamauchi 1961: Nomura 1962: Harimoto 1963: Nomura 1964: Stanka 1965: Nomura 1966: Nomura 1967: Adachi 1968: Yoneda 1969: Nagaike 1970: Kitaru 1971: Nagaike 1972: Fukumoto 1973: Nomura 1974: Kaneda 1975: Katō 1976: Yamada 1977: Yamada 1978: Yamada 1979: Manuel 1980: Kida 1981: Enatsu 1982: Ochiai 1983: Higashio 1984: G. Wells 1985: Ochiai 1986: Ishige 1987: Higashio 1988: Kadota 1989: Bryant 1990: Nomo 1991: T. Kaku 1992: Ishii 1993: Kudoh 1994: Suzuki 1995: Suzuki 1996: Suzuki 1997: Nishiguchi 1998: K. Matsui 1999: Kudoh 2000: Matsunaka 2001: Rhodes 2002: Cabrera 2003: Johjima 2004: Matsunaka 2005: Sugiuchi 2006: Ogasawara 2007: Darvish 2008: Iwakuma 2009: Darvish 2010: Wada 2011: Uchikawa 2012: Yoshikawa 2013: Tanaka

v t e Japan Series MVP Award 1950: Betto 1951: Minamimura 1952: Bessho 1953: Kawakami 1954: Sugishita 1955: Bessho 1956: Toyoda 1957: Oshita 1958: Inao 1959: Sugiura 1960: Kondo 1961: Miyamoto 1962: Dobashi 1962: Tanemo 1963: S. Nagashima 1964: Stanka 1965: S. Nagashima 1966: Shibata 1967: Mori 1968: Takada 1969: S. Nagashima 1970: S. Nagashima 1971: Suetsugu 1972: Horiuchi 1973: Horiuchi 1974: Hirota 1975: Yamaguchi 1976: Fukumoto 1977: Yamada 1978: Osugi 1979: Takahashi 1980: Lyttle 1981: Nishimoto 1982: Higashio 1983: Ota 1984: K. Nagashima 1985: Bass 1986: Kudoh 1987: Kudoh 1988: Ishige 1989: Komada 1990: Destrade 1991: Akiyama 1992: Take. Ishii 1993: Kawasaki 1994: Makihara 1995: O'Malley 1996: Neel 1997: Furuta 1998: Suzuki 1999: Akiyama 2000: Matsui 2001: Furuta 2002: Nioka 2003: Sugiuchi 2004: Taka. Ishii 2005: Imae 2006: Inaba 2007: Nakamura 2008: Kishi 2009: Abe 2010: Imae 2011: Kokubo 2012: Utsumi 2013: Mima

Persondata
Name	Betto, Kaoru
Alternative names
Short description	Baseball player
Date of birth	August 23, 1920
Place of birth	Nishinomiya, Hyōgo
Date of death	April 16, 1999
Place of death