• The 2008 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 59th season since the NPB was reorganized in 1950. The regular season started on March 20 with the...
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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 2009 Nippon Professional Baseball season is the 60th season since the NPB was reorganized in 1950 Source: [citation needed] Source: Note: All of the...
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  • In 2006 the Nippon Professional Baseball season ended with the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of the Pacific League defeating the Chunichi Dragons of the...
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  • The 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball realignment was a series of events that occurred during the 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball season that changed...
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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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  • 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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  • October 27, the game's original date. 2008 Korea Professional Baseball season 2008 Nippon Professional Baseball season A's likely to open '08 in Japan from...
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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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    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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    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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  • The Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) playoffs have taken several different forms throughout the organization's history. Japanese baseball is divided...
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    members of Nippon Professional Baseball's Pacific League. The team was led by Masataka Nashida on his first season as team manager. Nippon-Ham finished...
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  • The 2007 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 58th season since the NPB was reorganized in 1950 and the first to feature the Climax Series. Source:...
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    The 2014 Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) Draft was held on October 23, 2014, for the 50th time at the Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa to assign amateur...
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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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    Yu Darvish (category Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers)
    Chicago Cubs and in Nippon Professional Baseball for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. In international play, Darvish pitched in the 2008 Beijing Olympics...
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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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  • eBaseball Pro Yakyū Spirits (eBaseball プロ野球スピリッツ, eBaseball Puro Yakyū Supirittsu, lit. eBaseball Professional Baseball Spirits) is a Japanese baseball...
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  • have had successful careers in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Baek In-chun played professionally in Japan from 1963 to 1981, compiling 209...
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  • players under control of each team created in the fall of 2005 at Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). This system was established in 2005 to create an environment...
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  • Nippon Professional Baseball's Pacific League. The team was led by Hisanobu Watanabe on his first season as team manager. Seibu finished the season in...
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    played their home games at Miyagi Baseball Stadium in the city of Sendai as members of Nippon Professional Baseball's Pacific League. The team was led...
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    The 2017 Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) Draft was held on October 26, 2017, for the 53rd time at the Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa to assign amateur...
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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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    Shohei Ohtani (category Nippon Professional Baseball designated hitters)
    MLB for the Los Angeles Angels and the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Because of his elite contributions both as...
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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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  • 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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    also played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp and Chiba Lotte Marines. Jackson played college baseball at Furman University...
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