Topic: Hanshin Tigers
refers to an urban legend regarding a reputed curse placed on the Japanese Kansai-based Hanshin Tigers baseball team by deceased KFC founder and mascot Colonel Harland Sanders . The Hanshin Tigers are located in Kansai , the second largest metropolitan area in ...
renmei) is an intercollegiate baseball league that features 21 prominent universities in the Tokyo area. Tohto University Baseball League Established 1930 Teams 21National Championships 21Meiji Jingu Tournament Championships 11Region Prefectures 1 - Tokyo Headquarters Tokyo, Japan Locations Division 1 games are played ...
A new record was set in Japan over the weekend, and it wasn't the world's largest Hitler salute. Guinness officials confirmed that 27,126 people took part in the toast, which was held on June 26 at a baseball game between the Tokyo ...
Japanese catcher Kenji Johjima, who quit the Seattle Mariners hoping to play full time, signed a four-year contract Friday with the Hanshin Tigers of Japan's Central League. "I'd like to play in all the innings and in all the games, if possible," ...
The "curse of Colonel Sanders" , blamed for a Japanese baseball club's quarter century of bad luck, was declared exorcised in a full Shinto rite Thursday. "The curse is completely broken," chief priest Tsunetada Mayumi said at Sumiyoshi Shrine in Osaka, home ...
In 1985, elated fans of Japanese baseball's Hanshin Tigers did as tradition dictated and leaped into the murky waters of the Dontonbori canal running through industrial Osaka in western Japan to celebrate their team winning both the league and national crowns. A ...