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Chunichi Dragons
ID: team_137505
About
The Chunichi Dragons are a professional baseball team based in Nagoya, the chief city in the ChΕ«bu region of Japan. The team plays in the Central League of Nippon Professional Baseball. They have won the Central League pennant 9 times (most recently in 2011) and the Japan Series twice in 1954 and 2007. They were also champions in the 2007 Asia Series. The Chunichi Dragons were formed in 1936 as the Nagoya Club. The franchise was acquired by the Chunichi Shimbun newspaper company in 1946. They became the "Dragons" in 1947, but experimented with a number of variations on their team name before settling on Chunichi Dragons in 1954.
Home Venue
The Nagoya Dome constructed in 1997, is a baseball field, located in the city of Nagoya, Japan. The dome has the capacity to seat up to 38,414 people (official 46,500 people). It is an example of a geodesic dome. Baseball game It has served as HQ for the Chunichi Dragons baseball team, since its opening. It has also served baseball teams Orix Blue Wave and Kintetsu Buffaloes, sometimes during the year.
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Toshiki Abe
Koji Fukutani
Takuya Kinoshita
Yota Kyoda
Yunior Marte
Kyle Muller
Akira Neo
Yudai Ohno
Yohei Ohshima
Shuhei Takahashi
Kengo Takeda
DayΓ‘n Viciedo
Yuya Yanagi
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