Hiroshima Toyo Carp
Nippon Professional Baseball team in the Central League
The Hiroshima Toyo Carp (広島東洋カープ, Hiroshima Tōyō Kāpu) is a Japanese professional baseball team in the city of Hiroshima and Hiroshima Prefecture.[1] The Carp play in Japan's Central League or Ce League (セリーグ, Se reegu).[2]
The team's ballpark is Mazda Stadium.
The Carp is a team with the greatest number of perfect games in Japanese professional baseball.
History
changeThe team joined the Central League as the Hiroshima Carp in 1949.[3] Carp Won Central League Championship for the first time in 1975.
The team mascot "Slyly" bears resemblance to the Phillie Phanatic of the Philadelphia Phillies.[1] "Carp Boya" is another team mascot.
League titles
change- Japan series titles(3) 1979,1980,1984
- Central League Championship (6) 1975,1979,1980,1984,1986,1991
Notable players
change- Kōji Yamamoto (山本 浩二, Yamamoto Kōji)[4]
- Sachio Kinugasa (衣笠 祥雄, kinugasa Sachio)[5]
Current manager
change- 77 Kenjiro Nomura (野村 謙二郎, Nomura Kenjiro) [6]
Current players
change- 1 Tomonori Maeda (前田 智徳, Maeda Tomonori) [7]
- 2 Akihiro Higashide (東出 輝裕, Nomura Kenjiro) [8]
- 5 Kenta Kuirhara (栗原 健太, Kurihara Kenta) [9]
- 6 Eishin Soyogi (梵 英心, Soyogi Eishin) [10]
- 18 Kenta Maeda (前田 健太, Maeda Kenta) [11]
- 25 Takuro Ishii (石井 琢朗, Ishii Takuro) [12]
- 66 Shogo Kimura (木村 昇吾, Kimura Shogo) [13]
MLB players
change- Hiroki Kuroda (黒田 博樹, Kuroda Hiroki)[14]
- Alfonso Guilleard Soriano[15]
- Colby Lewis
- Ken Takahashi (高橋 建, Takahashi Ken)[16]
Gallery
change-
The field at Mazda Stadium
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Outside Mazda Stadium
Related pages
changeReferences
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hiroshima. Wikivoyage.
- ↑ Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), "Teams (Rosters, Schedules/Scores, Individual Stats); retrieved 2012-7-17.
- ↑ Bjarkman, Peter C. (2005). Diamonds Around the Globe: The Encyclopedia of International Baseball. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 151. ISBN 978-0-313-32268-6.
- ↑ BaseballReference.com, Koji Yamamoto; retrieved 2012-7-17.
- ↑ BaseballReference.com, Sachio Kinugasa; retrieved 2012-7-17.
- ↑ BaseballReference.com, Kenjiro Nomura; retrieved 2012-7-17.
- ↑ BaseballReference.com, Tomonori Maeda; retrieved 2012-7-17.
- ↑ BaseballReference.com, Akihiro Higashide; retrieved 2012-7-17.
- ↑ BaseballReference.com, Kenta Kuirhara; retrieved 2012-7-17.
- ↑ BaseballReference.com, Eishin Soyogi; retrieved 2012-7-18.
- ↑ BaseballReference.com, Kenta Maeda; retrieved 2012-7-18.
- ↑ BaseballReference.com, Takuro Ishii; retrieved 2012-7-18.
- ↑ BaseballReference.com, Shogo Kimura; retrieved 2012-7-18.
- ↑ BaseballReference.com, Hiroki Kuroda; retrieved 2012-7-18.
- ↑ BaseballReference.com, Alfonso Soriano; retrieved 2012-7-18.
- ↑ BaseballReference.com, Ken Takahashi; retrieved 2012-7-18.
Other websites
changeMedia related to Hiroshima Toyo Carp at Wikimedia Commons
- (in Japanese) Hiroshima Carp official web site
- (in Japanese) japanesebaseball.com Carp page
- (in Japanese) Carp train (operated by Hiroden) Archived 2009-08-22 at the Wayback Machine
