Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks

  • Nankai -gun (1938-1944)
  • Kinki Nippon -gun (1944-1945)
  • Great Ling (1946-1947)
  • Nankai Hawks (1947-1988)
  • Fukuoka Daiei Hawks (1989-2004)
  • Sakai - Ohama Stadium (1938 )
  • Nakamozu Stadium (1939-1947)
  • Koshien Stadium (1948-1949)
  • Heiwadai Stadium (1989-1992)
  • Fukuoka Dome ( since 1993)
  • Nippon Series ( 4): 1959, 1964, 1999, 2003
  • Winner of the Pacific League (15 ): 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1959, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1973, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2010, 2011
  • Winner of the League of the Japanese Baseball Association (2): 1946, 1948

The Fukuoka Softbank Hawks (Japanese福岡 ソフトバンク ホークス, fukuoka sofutobanku hōkusu ) is a Japanese professional baseball team. They play in the Pacific League and have been able to four times the Nihon Series win. Owner is the media company Softbank. Home of the Hawks is Fukuoka, their home games they played in Fukuoka Dome from.

History

The team is one of the oldest professional teams in Japanese baseball. As Nankai -gun (南海 军) the railway company Nankai tetsudō she took from the fall of 1938 participate in the game mode, which was founded two years earlier professional league. Home she was first in the Sakai - Omaha Baseball Stadium (堺 大 浜 球场, Sakai Ohama KYUJO ) in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, from 1939, in Nakamozu Baseball Stadium (中 百舌 鸟 球场, Nakamozu KYUJO ) also in Sakai. Regular games were played in the Koshien and Hankyu Nishinomiya - Stadium. Sporty were the years until the war ended with little success, the best ranking achieved Nankai 1941 as fourth. Major players of the time were the Pitcherass Kanda Takeo and Kazuto Tsuruoka, Homerunchampion of 1941 and later longtime manager of the team. As of June 1944 was named Nankai -gun after the merger of Nankai with the Kansai Kinki Nippon Railway kyuko -gun.

The team is now involved in the resumption of gaming operations in 1946 for two years as Great Ling (グレート リング, gurētoringu ).

Famous players and managers

  • Katsuya Nomura (C, 1954-1977 )
  • Hiromitsu Kadota (OF, 1970-1988 )
  • Kazunori Yamamoto (OF, 1983-1995 )
  • Makoto Sasaki (OF, 1984-1993 )
  • Koji Akiyama (OF, 1994-2002 )
  • Hiroki Kokubo (2B, 1994-2003, 2007 -)
  • Kimiyasu Kudō (P, 1995-1999)
  • Kenji Jojima (C, 1995-2005)
  • Kazumi Saitō (P, 1996 - )
  • Tadahito Iguchi (2B, 1997-2004)
  • Nobuhiko Matsunaka (1B, 1997 - )
  • Munenori Kawasaki (SS, 2000-2011 )
  • Toshiya Sugiuchi (P, 2002-2011 )
  • Tsuyoshi Wada (P, 2003 -)

Stadium

Home of the Hawks, with space for about 35,000 spectators since 1993, the Fukuoka Dome. Previously, she had played in Heiwadai Ballpark since 1950 in the ballpark Osaka ( Osaka KYUJO ) and after moving to Fukuoka from 1989.

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