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Nippon Baseball League

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Established
1950 (76 years old)

First Recorded Event
2008-03-20

Current Season
2026

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Sport
Baseball

Location
Japan

Gender
Male

TV Rights
US - Next Level Sports [2021]

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18 Apr	Tohoku Ra	5:00am	Chiba Lot
18 Apr	Hiroshima	5:00am	Yokohama
18 Apr	Hanshin T	5:00am	Chunichi
18 Apr	Hokkaido	5:00am	Saitama S
18 Apr	Tokyo Yak	9:00am	Yomiuri G
18 Apr	Fukuoka S	9:00am	Orix Buff
19 Apr	Fukuoka S	4:00am	Orix Buff
19 Apr	Hokkaido	4:00am	Saitama S
19 Apr	Hiroshima	4:30am	Yokohama
19 Apr	Hanshin T	5:00am	Chunichi
Results
17 Apr	Tokyo Yak	2 - 8	Yomiuri G
17 Apr	Tohoku Ra	1 -	Chiba Lot
17 Apr	Hokkaido	3 - 5	Saitama S
17 Apr	Hiroshima	1 - 5	Yokohama
17 Apr	Hanshin T	2 - 1	Chunichi
17 Apr	Fukuoka S	4 - 13	Orix Buff
16 Apr	Chiba Lot	5 - 3	Hokkaido
16 Apr	Fukuoka S	6 -	Tohoku Ra
16 Apr	Hanshin T	3 - 4	Yomiuri G
16 Apr	Tokyo Yak	2 -	Yokohama

Description

Nippon Professional Baseball (日本野球機構, Nippon Yakyū Kikō) or NPB is the highest level of baseball in Japan. Locally, it is often called Puro Yakyū (プロ野球), meaning Professional Baseball. Outside Japan, it is often just referred to as "Japanese baseball". The roots of the league can be traced back to the formation of the "Greater Japan Tokyo Baseball Club" (大日本東京野球倶楽部, Dai-Nippon Tōkyō Yakyū Kurabu) in Tokyo, founded in 1934, and the original circuit for the sport in the Empire two years later – Japanese Baseball League (1936–1949), and continued to play even through the final years of World War II.

The league that is today's NPB for Japan was formed when that sports organization reorganized in 1950, creating two leagues with six teams each in the Central League and the Pacific League with an annual season-ending Japan Series championship play-off series of games starting that year for the JPB along the lines of the American World Series tournament (held since 1903).


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Chiba Lotte Marin		Chunichi Dragons		Fukuoka SoftBank
Hanshin Tigers		Hiroshima Toyo Ca		Hokkaido Nippon-H
Orix Buffaloes		Saitama Seibu Lio		Tohoku Rakuten Go
Tokyo Yakult Swal		Yokohama DeNA Bay		Yomiuri Giants

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