13 Facts About Yomiuri Giants

1.

Yomiuri Giants are a Japanese professional baseball team competing in Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League.

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Yomiuri Giants are the oldest team among the current Japanese professional teams.

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The Yomiuri Giants are regarded as "The New York Yankees of Japan" due to their widespread popularity, past dominance of the league, and polarizing effect on fans.

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The stylized lettering on the team's jerseys and caps is similar to the fancy lettering used by the Giants when they played in New York in the 1930s, although during the 1970s the Yomiuri Giants modernized their lettering to follow the style worn by the San Francisco Giants.

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From 1938 to 1987 the Yomiuri Giants played at Korakuen Stadium, moving to their current home the Tokyo Dome in 1988.

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In 1950 the Yomiuri Giants were one of the founding members of Nippon Professional Baseball, joining the Central League.

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The Yomiuri Giants lineup, consisting of Oh batting third and Nagashima batting fourth, was nicknamed the ON Hou, as the two players emerged as the best hitters in the league.

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In 2012, Asahi Shimbun discovered that the Yomiuri Giants had violated NPB rules by secretly paying pitcher Takahiko Nomaguchi while he was still an amateur playing in Japan's corporate league.

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In 2009, the Yomiuri Giants played the Japan national baseball team in an unofficial goodwill game before the World Baseball Classic.

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10.

The Yomiuri Giants won 6 to 3 against Chunichi, and took the Central League pennant and advanced to the Japan Series.

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11.

Contributors included Shinnosuke Abe, Yoshinobu Takahashi, Michihiro Ogasawara, Alex Ramirez, Seth Adam Greisinger, Marc Jason Kroon, Hisanori Takahashi, and Tetsuya Utsumi, The Yomiuri Giants lost 3 games to 4 to the Saitama Seibu Lions in the 2008 Japan Series.

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12.

The Yomiuri Giants corporation admitted that the payout had been made, but sued Shukan Bunshun for insinuating that the incident had underworld connections.

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13.

On 9 November 2015, the Yomiuri Giants organization terminated the contracts of all three players, with the league placing an indefinite disqualification on the players.

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