Baseball pitcher, the first South Korean-born player in Major League Baseball
| Life | 1973 |
| Era | 현대 |
| Clan | 충주 박씨 |
Park Chan-ho (Chan Ho Park) is a baseball pitcher born in 1973 in Gongju, South Chungcheong. In 1994 he became the first South Korean-born player in Major League Baseball with the Los Angeles Dodgers, and in 2001 the first South Korean MLB All-Star. He also played for Texas, San Diego, the New York Mets, Philadelphia, the New York Yankees and Pittsburgh, and in 2010 passed the record for most MLB wins by an Asia-born pitcher (124).
He later played for Japan's Orix Buffaloes (2011) and the KBO's Hanwha Eagles (2012) and announced his retirement in 2012. He was part of South Korea's gold-medal team at the 1998 Asian Games and its 2006 World Baseball Classic semifinal run. His listing as a Chungju Park rests on the Namuwiki clan article and was not cross-checked with an official source.