As Manager Yukio Nishimoto (西本 幸雄, Nishimoto Yukio, 25 April 1920  – 25 November 2011) was a Japanese baseball player and manager.

However his clubs would never go on to win the Japan Series, earning him the nickname "Great Tragic Leader".

Nishimoto was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1988.

He died of heart failure on 25 November 2011 aged 91.

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