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Nishitetsu Baseball Club
Information
League
Japanese Baseball League
Ballpark
Korakuen Stadium (Tokyo)
Established
1936; 1943 as Nishitetsu
Folded
1944
Division championships
None
Post-season championships
None
Former name(s)
Tokyo Senators (1936–1939) Tsubasa Baseball Club (1940) Taiyō Baseball Club (1941–1942)
The Nishitetsu Baseball Club was a team in the Japanese Baseball League (JBL). Founded in 1936 as the Tokyo Senators, the team went through a number of name changes and mergers before being dissolved after the 1943 season.
The team's undisputed star for most of its history was two-way player Jirō Noguchi, who excelled as a pitcher. Other notable players for the franchise included Chujiro Endo, Yutaka Ishii, Sadao Kondoh, Toshio Kurosawa, and Jirō's brother Akira Noguchi.
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