Their home stadium is the Meiji Jingu Stadium
in Tokyo. (Seating Capacity: about 35000)
This
stadium is also known as the place for the game of Tokyo Big6 Baseball League
which is the most popular college baseball league in Japan.
The
Swallows had been placed at the lowest rank in past 2 years, but won the
pennant race for the first time in 14 years last year.
Some wonderful players
made it happen!
He also got the HR leader, Stolen
Base leader and MVP in the Central League.
We were excited when he hit 3 homers
in the third game of Japan series (national championship games).
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| Tetsuto YAMADA picture from SANSPO.com |
His uniform number will be changed from “23” to “1” which used to be the number of Norichika Aoki (Seattle Mariners) and other Swallows’ star players.
It means everyone is looking forward to his continued success!
It means everyone is looking forward to his continued success!
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| http://www.4860.jp/special/yamada/ |
↑↑Check his model's items ↑↑
Three
more players got individual titles!
Shingo
Kawabata: batting leader and hits leader
SSK Rubberball Baseball Glove All round Kawabata Model (finished Break-in)
Kazuhiro
Hatakeyama : RBI leader
Tony
Barnette : saves leader (He will play
for the Texas Rangers from this year!)
By the way, a mascot exists in every team and performs fan services.
“Tsubakuro”
is the one of the Yakult Swallows. He is very popular and famous for his funny
character and activity. He writes a blog. (He can’t write Kanji though..) He is
a wicked. He often plays pranks on players and fans.
He
renews contract every year like baseball players. According to his contract, he
gets 22,000 yen this year. (Also he can drink Yakult as much as he wants!) ※Yakult is
the lactic-acid drink which is made by the parent company.
I guess some of you think that we "Swallow Sports" have relationship with “Yakult Swallows”...
But the Swallows has no relationship with us! :P
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