Tokyo Yakult Swallows
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| Tokyo Yakult Swallows
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| League
| Central League
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| Location
| Tokyo
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| Ballpark
| Meiji-Jingu Stadium
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| Year Founded
| 1950
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| Nickname(s)
| Yakult (ヤクルト), Swallows (スワローズ), Tsubame (燕, meaning swallows)
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| League championships
| 1978, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2001
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| Post-season championships
| 1978, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2001
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| Former name(s)
| Kokutetsu Swallows (1950-1965), Sankei Swallows (1965), Sankei Atoms (1966-1968), Atoms (1969), Yakult Atoms (1970-1973), Yakult Swallows (1974-2005)
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| Colors
| White, Red, Green pink
and Navy
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| Logo Design
| "Tokyo Yakult Swallows" written in red and navy
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The Tokyo Yakult Swallows are a professional baseball team in Japan's Central League.
The Swallows are named after their corporate owners, the Yakult Corporation. From 1950 to 1965, the company was owned by the former Japan National Railways (known as "Kokutetsu (国鉄)" in Japanese) and called the Kokutetsu Swallows; the team was then owned by the newspaper Sankei Shimbun from 1965 to 1968 and called the Sankei Atoms. Yakult purchased the team in 1970 and restored its original Swallows name in 1974. Then it was renamed the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in 2006.
Famous players of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows past and present include Masaichi Kaneda, Kazushige Nagashima, Johnny Ray, Dave Roberts, Tsutomu Wakamatsu, Hiromi Matsuoka, Charlie Manuel, Bob Horner, Jack Howell, Tom O'Malley, Terry Bross, Joe Pepitone, Masato Yoshii, Kazuhisa Ishii, Shingo Takatsu, Atsuya Furuta, Leon Lee (father of Derrek Lee), Doug DeCinces, Masato Yoshi, Rex Hudler, Larry Parrish, Bill Madlock, Takehiro Ikeyama, and Aaron Guiel.
[edit] Current roster
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Pitchers
Catchers
Infielders
Outfielders
Manager
Coaches
- Akimitsu Ito (伊東 昭光) - head and pitching
- Toshihide Narimoto (成本 年秀) - pitching
- Yukio Yaegashi (八重樫 幸雄) - batting
- Shigeru Sugimura (杉村 繁) - batting
- Toshifumi Baba (馬場 敏史) - defending and base-running
- Shinichi Sato (佐藤 真一) - defending and base-running
- Chikashi Nakanishi (中西 親志) - battery
- Takao Ebino (海老野 貴勇) - conditioning
- Junji Ogawa (小川 淳司) - farm manager
- Tomohito Ito (伊藤 智仁) - farm pitching
- Futoshi yamabe (山部 太) - farm pitching and training
- Yukio Arai (荒井 幸雄) - farm batting
- Katsuyuki Dobashi (土橋 勝征) - farm batting
- Fujio Sumi (角 富士夫) - farm defending and base-running
- Tetsuya Ihda (飯田 哲也) - farm defending and base-running
- Shigeyuki Uehara (上原 茂行) - farm battery
- Hiroshige Saruwatari (猿渡 寛茂) - farm bringing-up
- Hiroshi Takahashi (高橋 寛) - farm bringing-up
- Shigeyuki Yamaguchi - batting pitcher
- Makoto Ito - batting pitcher
- Shigeki Abe - catcher in the bull pen
- Yukihito Ranhashi (乱橋 幸仁) - batting pitcher
- Yuki Tanno - batting pitcher
- Masanao Ebana - catcher in the bull pen
- Masayuki Murata - batting pitcher
- Hirotsugu Maeda (前田 浩継)- batting pitcher
- Hideki Samejima - cathcer in the bull pen
- Koichi Nishizawa - batting pitcher
- Kenichi Oshio (押尾 健一) - batting pitcher
Honored Numbers
[edit] External links
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