Park Jin-man

Park Jin-man, born on 30 November 1976, is a retired South Korean baseball shortstop who built his reputation in the KBO League. His English Wikipedia article records that he batted and threw right-handed, that he won the KBO League Golden Glove Award five times and that he was named most valuable player of the 2006 Korean Series. He also represented the South Korea national baseball team at the Olympic Games, where the team took the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics and later won the gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games. After his playing career he moved into coaching and was hired as the new manager of the Samsung Lions in 2022, and the same source notes that he renewed that managerial contract in November 2025.