was a baseball player who pitched for Kaisou Central High School and Meiji University of the Tokyo Big6 Baseball League. He never got to play professionally, as he was drafted into the

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in 1945. He died during

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, on March 29, 1945, off the coast of

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. He was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008. Shima represented Kaisou Central in the 1939 Japanese High School Baseball Championship, where he shut out all five of the opposing teams, only allowed five hits, struck out 57 batters, and pitched no-hitters in the semifinal and final rounds. Shima began to play for Meiji University in 1940.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shima, Seiichi Japanese baseball players Baseball people from Wakayama Prefecture Meiji University alumni 1920 births 1945 deaths Japanese military personnel killed in World War II People from Wakayama (city) Imperial Japanese Army personnel of World War II