Yomiuri Giants

Yomiuri Giants has the longest history among the current professional baseball teams in Japan. 

Their home field is the Tokyo Dome. (The seating capacity is about 45,000.)

They are a very strong team! They have won 22 national championship titles and 45 league titles since 1936.

They have kept a high rank and had both capability and popularity for many years.

  

Instead, many baseball fans (except the Giants fans) don’t like the Giants because they are rich and strong.

Especially, the Hanshin Tigers is known as the rival of the Giants. Their games are called “The Classic”.

It is like the New York Yankees vs. Boston Red Sox.

Let me introduce some of the famous players in the Giants.

  

Their spirit is "Always be the gentleman." The Giants players do not grow their mustache and dye their hair.

Shigeo Nagashima was one of the most famous players in the Giants.

His feature was ‘Powerful baseball’. There was an anecdote to think hard, how to toss out a helmet,

So, His playing style was excited in baseball fan. He was called ‘Mr.baseball’.

2013, He received People's Honor Award with Hideki Matsui who is like his disciple. 

It will say ‘The moment to be a real Mr.baseball’.

He also worked as a manager of the GIants

Hideki Matsui who was known as a player of the New York Yankees had been playing in the Giants before coming to the MLB!

You know his great career while in the New York Yankees.

He not only contributed to the winning of World Series in 2009 but also was selected as the World Series MVP.

He was also playing an active part in the Giants.

He is definitely one of the candidates of the future manager of the Giants.

Besides Hideki Matsui, other major league players such as Masumi Kuwata, and Koji Uehara used to play with the Giants.

In the meantime, this year, the Giants made the 5 year partnership agreement with UNDER ARMOR.

UNDER ARMOR is a sports gear company based in Maryland, U.S.

It has grown as one of the leading sports makers in the U.S. in about 10 years.

The Giants changed their uniform to UNDER ARMOR and it has a good reputation. 

Manager Hara and Regular Catcher Kobayashi 

We have a lot of items of UNDER ARMOR. Please check them out!

UNDER ARMOR Item List

The Giants will finish this pennant race with the 2nd place, and advanced to the 1st stage of the Climax series.

Hayato Sakamoto, the 19th captain of the Giants, and Tomoyuki Sugano, the ace pitcher, should lead the team and they will try to get the way to the Japan Series!

Hayato Sakamoto ※Picture from Nikkan Sports

Tomoyuki Sugano ※Picture from Sankei News

 Sakamoto uses SSK bat!

http://www.4860.jp/special/sskwoodbat/

Sugano uses Mizuno glove!

http://www.4860.jp/special/mizuno_promodelg/

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