Wang Kuang-hui
First Baseman
Born: (1964-11-12)12 November 1964
Hualien County, Taiwan
Died: 30 August 2021(2021-08-30) (aged 56)
Taipei, Taiwan
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
CPBL debut
March 17, 1990, for the Brother Elephants
Career statistics
Batting average.285
Hits1009
Home runs91
Runs batted in524
Stolen bases42
Teams
As player

As coach

As manager

Wang Kuang-hui (Chinese: 王光輝; pinyin: Wáng Guānghuī; Wade–Giles: Wang2 Kuang1 Hui1; 12 November 1964 – 30 August 2021) was a Taiwanese professional baseball player and coach. He spent his entire playing and coaching career in the Chinese Professional Baseball League with the Brother Elephants franchise.

Career

Wang joined the Brother Hotel amateur baseball team in 1988. Wang won the batting champion in the Chinese Professional Baseball League's inaugural 1990 season. In middle of the 2004 season, he retired as a player. Over the course of his career, Wang appeared in twelve straight all-star games, and won the Gold Glove Award three times. Wang began his coaching career as a hitting coach for the Elephants. In October 2006, Wang was named the team's field manager. He resigned as manager in May 2009. He then coached youth and college baseball teams from 2010. Wang was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2020 and died of the disease on 30 August 2021, at the age of 56.[1][2]

His younger brother Wang Kuang-shih, played for the China Times Eagles as an infielder, and Wang's son Wang Wei-chen [zh] is an infielder for the CTBC Brothers.

As player

Season team G AB H HR RBI SB BB SO TB DP AVG
1990 Brother Elephants 79 310 106 9 45 3 24 21 158 8 0.342
1991 Brother Elephants 64 243 66 9 35 2 25 26 108 5 0.272
1992 Brother Elephants 88 319 81 12 43 12 39 37 126 6 0.254
1993 Brother Elephants 84 290 95 10 46 8 30 26 143 7 0.328
1994 Brother Elephants 85 344 102 10 55 1 13 40 152 11 0.297
1995 Brother Elephants 83 297 94 8 48 1 26 37 134 12 0.316
1996 Brother Elephants 91 354 115 8 57 3 16 35 161 10 0.325
1997 Brother Elephants 96 365 95 4 49 1 30 42 127 12 0.260
1998 Brother Elephants 86 334 102 9 56 5 18 38 141 11 0.305
1999 Brother Elephants 89 325 70 8 41 4 33 38 107 15 0.215
2000 Brother Elephants 30 105 27 0 17 1 7 18 33 3 0.257
2001 Brother Elephants 76 239 54 4 28 1 23 27 45 10 0.213
2002 Brother Elephants 12 14 4 0 2 0 7 1 3 4 0.286
2003 Brother Elephants 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
2004 Brother Elephants 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0.500
Total 15 years 968 3542 1009 91 524 42 285 390 1467 109 0.285

As manager

Season Team Game Win Loss Tie Win%
2007 Brother Elephants 100 49 50 1 0.495
2008 Brother Elephants 98 52 42 4 0.553
2009 Brother Elephants 26 7 19 0 0.269
Total 3 years 224 108 111 5 0.482

References

  1. ^ 謝, 靜雯 (30 August 2021). "王光輝前兄弟象名將「萬人迷」肝癌病逝享年56歲" (in Chinese). Central News Agency. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
  2. ^ Hsieh, Ching-wen; Ko Lin (30 August 2021). "Former Brother Elephants player dies of cancer". Central News Agency. Retrieved 30 August 2021.


Awards
Preceded by
First Champion
 CPBL Batting Champion Award
1990 		Succeeded by
Luis Iglesias
Sporting positions Preceded byNone Brother Elephants Batting Coach 2000–2006 Succeeded byLee Chu-ming (李居明) Preceded byWu Shih-hsih Brother Elephants Manager 2007–2009 Succeeded bySin Nakagomi


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