The Chunichi Dragons are a professional baseball team based in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. The Dragons are members of the Central League (CL) in Nippon Professional...
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the "Dragons" in 1947, but experimented with a number of variations on their team name before settling on Chunichi Dragons in 1954. The Dragons' most...
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Hiromitsu Ochiai (category Chunichi Dragons managers)
baseball manager and player. He is former manager of the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He is considered to be one of the most...
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Motonobu Tanishige (category Chunichi Dragons managers)
2002, he moved to the Chunichi Dragons, where he played for 14 seasons, until 2015. He was the player-manager of the Chunichi Dragons from 2014 to 2015,...
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Yomiuri Giants (section Chunichi Dragons)
Shimbun, or Chunichi Shimbun as it is known today. This created the Sangyo Baseball Club, which is now known as today's Chunichi Dragons. Like the Giants-Tigers...
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tumultuous season in the career of veteran New York Yankees first baseman Jack Elliot, who is traded to the Chunichi Dragons of the Japanese Central League...
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Tsuyoshi Yoda (category Chunichi Dragons managers)
Japan) is a Japanese professional baseball player and manager. He managed of the Chunichi Dragons in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) between 2019 and...
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Sadao Kondoh (category Chunichi Dragons managers)
pitcher and manager in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He was elected to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999. "Hall of Famers List | The Baseball...
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Alex Guerrero (baseball) (category Chunichi Dragons players)
played for the Los Angeles Dodgers of the Major League Baseball (MLB) and for the Chunichi Dragons and Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB)...
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Joely Rodríguez (category Chunichi Dragons players)
He has also played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Chunichi Dragons. Rodríguez signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates for a $55,000 signing...
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Sun Dong-yol (category Chunichi Dragons players)
key member of the Chunichi Dragons, he led his team to their first Central League title since 1988. After the 1999 season, the Chunichi Dragons attempted...
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American expatriate baseball players in Japan (category Expatriate baseball managers in Japan)
a battle between two American managers in Japan for the first time in 28 years (when Wally Yonamine's Chunichi Dragons faced Joe Lutz' Hiroshima Carp)...
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闇サイト事件の堀被告" [Death sentence for defendant in the murder of a Hekinan couple upheld by Supreme Court]. Chunichi Shimbun (in Japanese). 10 August 2019. Killed 3...
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Kosuke Fukudome (category Chunichi Dragons players)
(NPB) with the Chunichi Dragons and Hanshin Tigers. Prior to arriving in MLB, Fukudome played nine seasons for the Chunichi Dragons of the Nippon Professional...
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Akinori Otsuka (category Chunichi Dragons players)
13, 1972) is a Japanese former baseball pitcher who coaches for the Chunichi Dragons in Nippon Professional Baseball. He was formerly the set-up man for...
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Jim Marshall (baseball) (category Chunichi Dragons players)
five teams from 1958 through 1962. Then he played in Japan (with the Chunichi Dragons) from 1963 to 1965. After his playing career, Marshall managed the...
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Matt Stairs (category Chunichi Dragons players)
1993, Stairs' contract was purchased by the Chunichi Dragons of the NPB. He played 60 games for the Dragons that season, hitting .250, with six home runs...
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Ken Macha (category Chunichi Dragons players)
major league career, Macha spent four years playing in Japan with the Chunichi Dragons, from 1982 until 1985. Macha retired as a player in 1985 and joined...
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Larry Doby (category Chunichi Dragons players)
Detroit Tigers, and Chunichi Dragons before his retirement as a player in 1962. Doby later served as the second black manager in the majors with the...
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fielder in the 21st game against the Chunichi Dragons at the Tokyo Dome, recording his first hit in the bottom of the sixth inning off Keisuke Tanimoto...
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Billy Klaus (category Chunichi Dragons players)
Philadelphia Phillies (1962–1963). He played the end of the 1963 season playing for the Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Klaus batted...
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Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (section Managers)
Series, the Hawks took on the Chunichi Dragons to win the Japan Series, a rematch of the 1999 Japan Series. The Dragons pushed SoftBank to the full seven...
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infielder. Ryosuke Hirata (2005) – Former Chunichi Dragons outfielder. Shinji Imanaka (1988) – Former Chunichi Dragons pitcher. Minoru Iwata (2001) – Former...
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Kazuhiro Yamauchi (category Chunichi Dragons managers)
baseball player and manager. He played for the Mainichi Orions, the Hanshin Tigers and the Hiroshima Toyo Carp over the span of an 18 season-long career...
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Daisuke Matsuzaka (redirect from Monster of the Heisei Era)
Sox and New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Saitama Seibu Lions, Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball...
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Ken Aspromonte (category Chunichi Dragons players)
the Chunichi Dragons and Taiyo Whales. He also managed in the Major Leagues for three full seasons as skipper of the 1972–74 Indians. The native of Brooklyn...
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Shigeo Nagashima (category Managers of baseball teams in Japan)
doubled as a player and a coach in his final seasons. In 1974, the Chunichi Dragons won the league championship, breaking the nine-year streak held by...
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Lee Jong-beom (category Chunichi Dragons players)
Haitai Tigers) in the KBO League and the Chunichi Dragons in Japan from 1998 to 2001. He is nicknamed "Son of the Wind" (바람의 아들) for his speed. (He was...
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Iván Cruz (category Chunichi Dragons players)
(Short Season) Niagara Falls Rapids in 1989, and his last with the Chunichi Dragons of Japan's Central League in 2003. He played his last affiliated season...
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Tsuyoshi Shinjo (category Managers of baseball teams in Japan)
a member of the Fighters squad that won their first Japan Series title since 1962 with a 4 games to 1 series win over the Chunichi Dragons. As Shinjo...
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