Victor Starffin (Russian: Виктор Константинович Старухин, Viktor Konstantinovich Starukhin, 1 May 1916 – 12 January 1957), nicknamed "the blue-eyed Japanese" (青い目の日本人, aoi-me no Nihonjin), was an ethnic Russian baseball player in Japan and the first professional pitcher in Japan to win three hundred games. With 83 career shutouts, he ranks number one all-time in Japanese professional baseball.
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1 May 1916 Nizhny Tagil, Russia
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Died |
12 January 1957 (aged 40) Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
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Zodiac | Taurus |
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