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The team was founded in 1949 and began play in 1950 in the newly organized NPB. Owned by Kinki Nippon Railway Co. (later known as Kintetsu Railway), the franchise was known as the Kintetsu Pearls from 1950 to 1958, Kintetsu Buffalo from 1959 to 1961, the Kintetsu Buffaloes from 1962 to 1998, and the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes from 1999 to 2004.
A total of 81 Japanese-born [1] [2] players have played in at least one Major League Baseball (MLB) game. Of these players, eleven are on existing MLB rosters.The first instance of a Japanese player playing in MLB occurred in 1964, when the Nankai Hawks, a Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) team, sent three exchange prospects to the United States to gain experience in MLB's minor league system.
Roberto Barbon (March 13, 1933 – January 12, 2023), nicknamed "Chico", was a Cuban-born Japanese baseball second baseman who became the first Latin American player to play in Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan. He played majority of his career for the Hankyu Braves, from 1955 to 1964, before ending it with the Kintetsu Buffaloes in 1965.
Good Luck is a 1923 comedy play by Ian Hay and Seymour Hicks. It ran for 260 performances at the Drury Lane Theatre in London 's West End between 27 September 1923 and 10 May 1924. The cast included Claude Rains , Edmund Gwenn , Arthur Treacher , Claud Allister , Joan Maude and Joyce Carey .
A good luck charm is an amulet or other item that is believed to bring good luck. Almost any object can be used as a charm. Coins, horseshoes and buttons are examples, as are small objects given as gifts, due to the favorable associations they make. Many souvenir shops have a range of tiny items that may be used as good luck charms.
Kakuro or Kakkuro or Kakoro (Japanese: カックロ) is a kind of logic puzzle that is often referred to as a mathematical transliteration of the crossword. Kakuro puzzles are regular features in many math-and-logic puzzle publications across the world.
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The play, scored a 5-5-4 fielder's choice, was the first 5-5-4 triple play of any kind since St. Louis Browns third baseman Owen Friend and second baseman Snuffy Stirnweiss turned the feat in 1950, and the first triple play fielder's choice (to not retire the batter) in the live-ball era of MLB (the most recent previous such triple play was in ...