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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

Current Round


Sport
Baseball

Location
Japan

Gender
Male

TV Rights
US - Next Level Sports [2021]

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		Upcoming
02 Jun 26	YokohamaYokohama DeNA BayStars	9:00am	Tohoku RTohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
02 Jun 26	Yomiuri Yomiuri Giants	9:00am	Orix BufOrix Buffaloes
02 Jun 26	HiroshimHiroshima Toyo Carp	9:00am	HokkaidoHokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
02 Jun 26	Tokyo YaTokyo Yakult Swallows	9:00am	Chiba LoChiba Lotte Marines
02 Jun 26	Hanshin Hanshin Tigers	9:00am	Saitama Saitama Seibu Lions
02 Jun 26	ChunichiChunichi Dragons	9:00am	Fukuoka Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
03 Jun 26	ChunichiChunichi Dragons	9:00am	Fukuoka Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
03 Jun 26	Hanshin Hanshin Tigers	9:00am	Saitama Saitama Seibu Lions
03 Jun 26	HiroshimHiroshima Toyo Carp	9:00am	HokkaidoHokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
03 Jun 26	Tokyo YaTokyo Yakult Swallows	9:00am	Chiba LoChiba Lotte Marines
		Results
31 May 26	Saitama SSaitama Seibu Lions	0 - 6	Yokohama Yokohama DeNA BayStars
31 May 26	Tohoku RaTohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles	1 - 2	Tokyo YakTokyo Yakult Swallows
31 May 26	Orix BuffOrix Buffaloes	7 - 5	Chunichi Chunichi Dragons
31 May 26	Hokkaido Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters	3 - 0	Yomiuri GYomiuri Giants
31 May 26	Fukuoka SFukuoka SoftBank Hawks	3 - 1	HiroshimaHiroshima Toyo Carp
31 May 26	Chiba LotChiba Lotte Marines	4 - 2	Hanshin THanshin Tigers
30 May 26	Chiba LotChiba Lotte Marines	3 - 4	Hanshin THanshin Tigers
30 May 26	Fukuoka SFukuoka SoftBank Hawks	4 - 2	HiroshimaHiroshima Toyo Carp
30 May 26	Orix BuffOrix Buffaloes	3 - 1	Chunichi Chunichi Dragons
30 May 26	Hokkaido Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters	3 - 5	Yomiuri GYomiuri Giants

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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