• The 1989 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 40th season of operation for the league. CL Yomiuri Giants (4) vs. PL Kintetsu Buffaloes (3) 1989 Major...
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    Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB, 日本野球機構, Nippon Yakyū Kikō) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of baseball in Japan. Locally, it...
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    1936 season. For the 1950 season, the organization was renamed Nippon Professional Baseball and with additional clubs joining, it was broken into the Central...
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  • The 1990 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 41st season of operation for the league. PL Seibu Lions (4) vs. CL Yomiuri Giants (0) 1990 Major...
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  • Major League Baseball (MLB) and Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) are the highest levels of baseball in the United States and Japan, respectively. MLB...
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  • The 1988 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 39th season of operation for the league. PL Seibu Lions (4) vs. CL Chunichi Dragons (1) 1988 Major...
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  • The Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star Game is an annual baseball series of All-Star Games (in most years, two games are played, but three such games...
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    Valuable Player (MVP) Award (最優秀選手, Saiyūshūsenshu) is an annual Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) award given to two outstanding players, one each for the...
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    The Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (北海道日本ハムファイターズ, Hokkaidō Nippon-Hamu Faitāzu) is a Japanese professional baseball team based in Kitahiroshima, Hokkaidō...
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  • This is a list of the top 40 Nippon Professional Baseball home run hitters. In the sport of baseball, a home run is a hit in which the batter scores by...
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    Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL; Chinese: 中華職業棒球大聯盟; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Zhíyè Bàngqiú Dàliánméng) is the top-tier professional baseball league...
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  • Professional baseball in Japan first started in the 1920s, but it was not until the Greater Japan Tokyo Baseball Club (大日本東京野球倶楽部, Dai-nippon Tōkyō Yakyū...
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    competitions emerged in the 1920s. The highest level of baseball in Japan is Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), which consists of two leagues, the Central...
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  • on Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) rosters in the 1960s. More than 600 Americans have played NPB, although very few last more than a single season in...
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  • their homes. The deal was for the 2020 season only and was not renewed for 2021. As with Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), the KBO league places a cap on...
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  • which operated from 1936 to 1949, before reorganizing in 1950 as Nippon Professional Baseball. The league's dominant team was Tokyo Kyojin (renamed the Yomiuri...
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    (オリックス・バファローズ, Orikkusu Bafarōzu) are a Nippon Professional Baseball team formed as a result of the 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball realignment by the merger of...
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  • The 1989 Japan Series was the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) championship series for the 1989 season. It was the 40th Japan Series and featured the...
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    Shohei Ohtani (category Nippon Professional Baseball designated hitters)
    played in MLB for the Los Angeles Angels and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. Because of his elite contributions...
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    1962) is an American professional baseball left fielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) and Nippon Professional Baseball from 1984 to 1998. Mitchell...
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  • their seasons due to the Mets and Phillies home openers postponed from March 28 due to inclement weather. The 2024 Nippon Professional Baseball season begins...
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    Japanese professional baseball team competing in Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League. Based in Bunkyo, Tokyo, they are one of two professional baseball...
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    Hōkusu) are a Japanese professional baseball team based in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture. They compete in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) as a member of...
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    Tomoyuki Sugano (category Nippon Professional Baseball MVP Award winners)
    Tomoyuki, born October 11, 1989) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Yomiuri Giants of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Sugano is a two-time...
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    The Commissioner of Baseball is the highest office in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). NPB's current commissioner is Sadayuki Sakakibara. Matsutarō...
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    November 5, 1989) is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. Nakamura participated...
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    Republic Professional Baseball League (Spanish: Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana or LIDOM) is a professional baseball winter league...
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  • batting over .300 both years. He also spent time in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) while playing for the Orix BlueWave...
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    Sho Nakata (category Nippon Professional Baseball first basemen)
    1989, in Hiroshima), nicknamed "Sho Time", is a Japanese professional baseball player playing for the Chunichi Dragons of the Nippon Professional Baseball...
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    team. After his major league career, he played for one season in the Nippon Professional Baseball League as a member of the Nankai Hawks in 1964. Logan...
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