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The Chunichi Dragons (中日ドラゴンズ, Chūnichi Doragonzu) are a professional baseball team based in Nagoya, the chief city in the Chūbu region of Japan. The team plays in the Central League of Nippon Professional Baseball .
Headquarters of Chunichi Shimbun in Nagoya. The Chunichi Shimbun (中日新聞, Chūnichi Shinbun, Central Japan News) is a Japanese daily "broadsheet" newspaper published in mostly Aichi Prefecture and neighboring regions by Chunichi Shimbun Co., Ltd. [1] Based in Nagoya, one of Japanese three major metropolitan areas, it boasts the third circulation after the group newspapers the Yomiuri ...
The Central League was founded in 1949 with eight teams: four holdovers from the previous Japanese Baseball League — the Chunichi Dragons, the Hanshin Tigers, the Yomiuri Giants, and the Shochiku Robins (formerly the Taiyō Robins) — and four new teams — the Hiroshima Carp, the Kokutetsu Swallows, the Nishi Nippon Pirates, and the Taiyō Whales.
Chunichi may refer to: Chunichi Dragons, a professional baseball team based in Nagoya, Japan; Chunichi Shimbun, a progressive-liberal Japanese newspaper;
Cristián Leandro Rodríguez García (born 31 March 2002) is a Cuban professional baseball infielder for the Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has previously played for Villa Clara in the Cuban National Series .
Chunichi's most successful season came under another hall of famer, Shunichi Amachi, who led the team to Central league victory in 1954 with a winning percentage of .683 to claim the team's first Central League and Japan Series crowns. He was the first manager with no professional baseball experience to do so in Japan.
The Tokyo Shimbun (東京新聞, Tōkyō Shinbun, lit. ' Tokyo Newspaper ') is a Japanese newspaper published by The Chunichi Shimbun Company. The group publishes newspapers under the brand name of The Tokyo Shimbun in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area and under The Chunichi Shimbun in the Nagoya Metropolitan Area.
Chunichi Dragons (Central League) (1948-1996) Nagoya Stadium (ナゴヤ球場) was a stadium in Nagoya , Japan . It was primarily used for baseball and was home of the Chunichi Dragons until they moved to the Nagoya Dome in 1997.