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The Giants and Dragons have met in the Climax Series 5 times, in which the overall head-to-head is tied, 12-12-1, including 1 game advantage wins in the 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2012 Central League Climax Series. The Giants also have won the head to head series in the Climax Series 3 times to Chunichi's 2.
Poster for the tour, showing Babe Ruth. The 1934 Japan Tour was a 12-city barnstorming baseball tour of Japan that took place in November and December 1934. It featured an all-star team of American League baseball players, playing against a Japanese team that would become the Yomiuri Giants.
The Tokyo Yakult Swallows (Japanese: 東京ヤクルトスワローズ) are a Japanese professional baseball team competing in Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League. Based in Shinjuku , Tokyo , they are one of two professional baseball teams in Tokyo, the other being the Yomiuri Giants .
The magazine Weekly Baseball issue on 16 April 1958 published on the cover by Mr. Nagashima (left) and Tatsuro Hirooka (right). Shigeo Nagashima (長嶋 茂雄, Nagashima Shigeo, born February 20, 1936, in Sakura, Chiba, Japan) nicknamed "Mr. Giants" is a Japanese former professional baseball player and manager.
Two members of the winning Yomiuri Giants team -- Hideki Matsui (2009) and Dan Gladden (1987, 1991) -- also won a World Series. This was the second Japan Series to feature night games after 1964 Japan Series although the night games were only on weekdays, and the first with a reduction in extra innings.
It was the 47th Japan Series and featured the Pacific League champions, the Orix BlueWave, against the Central League champions, the Yomiuri Giants. The series was the eighth time the two franchises played each other for the championship; however, the last time the two teams played, Orix was known as the Hankyu Braves.
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The franchise that eventually became the Orix Buffaloes was founded in 1936 under the ownership of a Japanese railway company Hanshin Kyuko Railway Company (阪神急行電鉄, Hanshin Kyuko Dentetsu, present: Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc.), as Osaka Hankyu Baseball Club (大阪阪急野球協会, Ōsaka hankyū yakyū kyōkai).
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