1967 Nippon Professional Baseball season

This article is about the 1967 Nippon Professional Baseball season only. For information on all of baseball, see 1967 in baseball.

1967 NPB season
League	Nippon Professional Baseball
Sport	Baseball
Central League Pennant
League champions	Yomiuri Giants
Runners-up	Chunichi Dragons
Season MVP	Sadaharu Oh (YOM)
Pacific League Pennant
League champions	Hankyu Braves
Runners-up	Nishitetsu Lions
Season MVP	Mitsuhiro Adachi (HAN)
Japan Series
Champions	Yomiuri Giants
Runners-up	Hankyu Braves
Finals MVP	Masahiko Mori (YOM)

The 1967 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 18th season of operation of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Regular season

Batting leaders
Stat	Player	Team	Total
Batting average	Toshio Naka	Chunichi	.343
Home runs	Sadaharu Oh	Yomiuri	47
Runs batted in	Sadaharu Oh	Yomiuri	108
Runs	Sadaharu Oh	Yomiuri	94
Hits	Taira Fujita	Hanshin	154
Stolen bases	Isao Shibata	Yomiuri	70

Pitching leaders
Stat	Player	Team	Total
Wins	Kentaro Ogawa	Chunichi	29
Losses	Shiroku Ishito	Sankei	18
Earned run average	Masatoshi Gondo	Hanshin	1.40
Strikeouts	Yutaka Enatsu	Hanshin	225
Innings pitched	Kentaro Ogawa	Chunichi	279 ²⁄₃

Batting leaders
Stat	Player	Team	Total
Batting average	Isao Harimoto	Toei	.336
Home runs	Katsuya Nomura	Nankai	35
Runs batted in	Katsuya Nomura	Nankai	100
Runs	Gordon Windhorn	Hankyu	78
Hits	Masahiro Doi	Kintetsu	147
Stolen bases	Takayuki Nishida	Tokyo	32

Pitching leaders
Stat	Player	Team	Total
Wins	Masaaki Ikenaga	Nishitetsu	23
Losses	Katsuji Sakai Taisuke Watanabe	Tokyo Nankai	18
Earned run average	Mitsuhiro Adachi	Hankyu Braves	1.75
Strikeouts	Keishi Suzuki	Kintetsu	222
Innings pitched	Masaaki Ikenaga	Nishitetsu	335 ¹⁄₃

Most Valuable Player
- Sadaharu Oh, Yomiuri Giants (CL)
- Mitsuhiro Adachi, Hankyu Braves (PL)
Rookie of the Year
- Shiro Takegami, Sankei Atoms (CL)
- Yoshimasa Takahashi, Toei Flyers (PL)
Eiji Sawamura Award
- Kentaro Ogawa, Chunichi Dragons (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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