1953 Nippon Professional Baseball season information
This article is about the 1953 Nippon Professional Baseball season only. For information on all of baseball, see 1953 in baseball.
Sports season
1953 NPB season
League
Nippon Professional Baseball
Sport
Baseball
Central League Pennant
League champions
Yomiuri Giants
Runners-up
Osaka Tigers
Season MVP
Takumi Otomo (YOM)
Pacific League Pennant
League champions
Nankai Hawks
Runners-up
Hankyu Braves
Season MVP
Isami Okamoto (NAN)
Japan Series
Champions
Yomiuri Giants
Runners-up
Nankai Hawks
Finals MVP
Tetsuharu Kawakami (YOM)
NPB seasons
← 1952
1954 →
The 1953 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the fourth season of operation of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
That season would be the first to be televised on the young NHK General TV - which opened that year. The young channel and its then few national relay stations aired some games during the year, tying baseball to the young TV industry and thus beginning the sports connection to Japanese television, as well as its transformation into the top sport of the nation.
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