Japanese Baseball League
For the current Japanese Professional League, see Nippon Professional Baseball. The Japanese baseball league is one of the major leagues in Japanese baseball.
| Sport | Baseball |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1935 |
| Inaugural season | 1936 |
| No. of teams | 9 (1949) 12 (overall) |
| Country(ies) | Japan |
| Ceased | 1950 |
| Last champion(s) | Yomiuri Giants |
| Official website | None |
The Japanese Baseball League (日本野球連盟, Nihon Yakyū Renmei?) was a professional baseball league in Japan.
It was established on February 5, 1936 as "Japan Occupational Baseball League". Then it was renamed "Japanese Baseball League" in 1939. It was run until 1949. There was no League Play in 1945. The league played fall and spring seasons in 1937 and 1938.
Four of the franchises formerly in this league currently play in the Central League, and four others are in the Pacific League.
Read more about Japanese Baseball League: Teams, Defunct Japanese Baseball Teams, MVPs, Champions
Famous quotes containing the words japanese, baseball and/or league:
“The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable, submissive and resentful of being pushed around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new ways.”
—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)
“It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.”
—Shirley Chisholm (b. 1924)
“Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never, ever be permitted around a Little League field. And then one day your best friend from college, the one your kids adore, comes out to you.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)