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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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26 May	YokohamaYokohama DeNA BayStars	8:45am	Orix BufOrix Buffaloes
26 May	Yomiuri Yomiuri Giants	9:00am	Fukuoka Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
26 May	HiroshimHiroshima Toyo Carp	9:00am	Chiba LoChiba Lotte Marines
26 May	Tokyo YaTokyo Yakult Swallows	9:00am	Saitama Saitama Seibu Lions
26 May	Hanshin Hanshin Tigers	9:00am	HokkaidoHokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
26 May	ChunichiChunichi Dragons	9:00am	Tohoku RTohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
27 May	YokohamaYokohama DeNA BayStars	8:45am	Orix BufOrix Buffaloes
27 May	ChunichiChunichi Dragons	9:00am	Tohoku RTohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
27 May	Hanshin Hanshin Tigers	9:00am	HokkaidoHokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
27 May	HiroshimHiroshima Toyo Carp	9:00am	Chiba LoChiba Lotte Marines
Results
24 May	Yomiuri Yomiuri Giants	3 - 6	Hanshin Hanshin Tigers
24 May	YokohamaYokohama DeNA BayStars	1 -	Tokyo YaTokyo Yakult Swallows
24 May	Fukuoka Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks	6 - 6	HokkaidoHokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
24 May	ChunichiChunichi Dragons	3 - 5	HiroshimHiroshima Toyo Carp
24 May	Saitama Saitama Seibu Lions	4 - 3	Orix BufOrix Buffaloes
24 May	Tohoku RTohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles	8 - 5	Chiba LoChiba Lotte Marines
23 May	Yomiuri Yomiuri Giants	0 - 3	Hanshin Hanshin Tigers
23 May	ChunichiChunichi Dragons	3 - 5	HiroshimHiroshima Toyo Carp
23 May	Fukuoka Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks	11 - 1	HokkaidoHokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
23 May	Saitama Saitama Seibu Lions	4 - 1	Orix BufOrix Buffaloes

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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