1954 Best Player Picked By ABC Saturday, March 20th , 1954 Ze-dong Cao, the talented China catcher, certainly made his name known among Asian Baseball Championship hurlers this season. He hammered them for 16 hits, 3 doubles, no triples, 2 home runs, 8 RBIs and scored 6 times. That kind of output made him the choice for Asian Baseball Championship Most Valuable Player Award for 1954.
He received 9 first place votes out of a possible 16. Mang Hui of the China finished second in voting with 2 first place votes, while Vladik Eliasberg of the Kazakhstan finished third with 1 first place vote.
ABC Awards Outstanding Pitcher Trophy Saturday, March 20th , 1954 Pi-ao Shui of the Chinese Taipei had a fine season and has been rewarded with the Asian Baseball Championship Best Pitcher for 1954.
The Chinese Taipei ace fashioned an ERA of 0.40 as he won 2 games, dropped 0, fanned 16 and gave up 5 walks in 22.1 innings of work.
He received 11 first place votes out of a possible 16. Shi-fu Chen of the China finished second in voting with 2 first place votes, while Tomofumi Sugimoto of the Japan finished third with 1 first place vote.
ABC News: The Offseason Begins Saturday, March 20th , 1954
The 1954 Asian Baseball Championship tournament was wrapped up today with a victory by the China. With the win, the countdown officially begins until the next tournament.
