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Wallace Kaname Yonamine was a Japanese American multi sport athlete. In 1947 he was signed to the San Francisco 49ers as a running back becoming the first Japanese American professional football player. His football career ended that off-season af...

Wallace Kaname Yonamine was a Japanese American multi sport athlete. In 1947 he was signed to the San Francisco 49ers as a running back becoming the first Japanese American professional football player. His football career ended that off-season after he broke his wrist playing amatuer baseball in Hawaii. He would go on to play professional baseball in Japan winning 4 series championships and central League MVP in 1957. In 1994 he became the first American player to be inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.