1963 Nippon Professional Baseball season

This article is about the 1963 Nippon Professional Baseball season only. For information on all of baseball, see 1963 in baseball.

1963 NPB season
League	Nippon Professional Baseball
Sport	Baseball
Central League Pennant
League champions	Yomiuri Giants
Runners-up	Chunichi Dragons
Season MVP	Shigeo Nagashima (YOM)
Pacific League Pennant
League champions	Nishitetsu Lions
Runners-up	Nankai Hawks
Season MVP	Katsuya Nomura (NAN)
Japan Series
Champions	Yomiuri Giants
Runners-up	Nishitetsu Lions
Finals MVP	Shigeo Nagashima (YOM)

The 1963 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the fourteenth season of operation of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Regular season

Game	Date	Score	Location	Time	Attendance
1	October 26	Yomiuri Giants – 1, Nishitetsu Lions – 6	Heiwadai Stadium	2:29	29,806^[1]
2	October 27	Yomiuri Giants – 9, Nishitetsu Lions – 6	Heiwadai Stadium	2:54	29,969^[1]
3	October 30	Nishitetsu Lions – 2, Yomiuri Giants – 8	Korakuen Stadium	2:28	30,384^[1]
4	October 31	Nishitetsu Lions – 4, Yomiuri Giants – 1	Korakuen Stadium	2:42	29,960^[1]
5	November 1	Nishitetsu Lions – 1, Yomiuri Giants – 3	Korakuen Stadium	2:10	30,386^[1]
6	November 3	Yomiuri Giants – 0, Nishitetsu Lions – 6	Heiwadai Stadium	2:09	27,079^[1]
7	November 4	Yomiuri Giants – 18, Nishitetsu Lions – 4	Heiwadai Stadium	2:32	17,436^[1]

Batting leaders
Stat	Player	Team	Total
Batting average	Shigeo Nagashima	Yomiuri Giants	.341
Home runs	Sadaharu Oh	Yomiuri Giants	40
Runs batted in	Shigeo Nagashima	Yomiuri Giants	112
Runs	Sadaharu Oh	Yomiuri Giants	111
Hits	Shigeo Nagashima	Yomiuri Giants	163
Stolen bases	Morimichi Takagi	Chunichi Dragons	50

Pitching leaders
Stat	Player	Team	Total
Wins	Masaichi Kaneda	Kokutetsu Swallows	30
Losses	Kiyoshi Oishi	Hiroshima Carp	22
Earned run average	Minoru Kakimoto	Chunichi Dragons	1.70
Strikeouts	Masaichi Kaneda	Kokutetsu Swallows	287
Innings pitched	Makoto Inagawa	Taiyo Whales	338 ¹⁄₃

Batting leaders
Stat	Player	Team	Total
Batting average	Jack Bloomfield	Kintetsu Buffaloes	.335
Home runs	Katsuya Nomura	Nankai Hawks	52
Runs batted in	Katsuya Nomura	Nankai Hawks	135
Runs	Katsuya Nomura	Nankai Hawks	104
Hits	Yoshinori Hirose	Nankai Hawks	187
Stolen bases	Yoshinori Hirose	Nankai Hawks	45

Pitching leaders
Stat	Player	Team	Total
Wins	Kazuhisa Inao	Nishitetsu Lions	28
Losses	Tetsuya Yoneda	Hankyu Braves	23
Earned run average	Masahiro Kubo	Kintetsu Buffaloes	2.36
Strikeouts	Kazuhisa Inao	Nishitetsu Lions	226
Innings pitched	Kazuhisa Inao	Nishitetsu Lions	386

Most Valuable Player
- Shigeo Nagashima, Yomiuri Giants (CL)
- Katsuya Nomura, Nankai Hawks (PL)
Rookie of the Year
- No CL recipient
- No PL recipient
Eiji Sawamura Award
- Yoshiaki Ito, Yomiuri Giants (CL)

Johnson, Daniel E. (July 2006). Japanese Baseball: A Statistical Handbook. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-2841-0.

Nippon Professional Baseball Seasons

1930s–1940s (Japanese Baseball League)	1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 (1945) 1946 1947 1948 1949

1950s–1960s	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969

1970s–1980s	1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989

1990s–2000s	1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

2010s–2020s	2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Japan Series Climax Series

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