Hiroshima Toyo Carp

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Hiroshima Toyo Carp
League	Central League
Location	Hiroshima
Ballpark	Hiroshima Municipal Stadium
Year Founded	1950
Nickname(s)	Hiroshima (広島), Carp (カープ), Koi (鯉, koi)
League championships	1975, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1986, 1991
Japan Series championships	1979, 1980, 1984
Former name(s)	Hiroshima Carp (1950–1967)
Colors	Red and white
Logo Design	"Carp" written in red cursive Roman, outlined in white
Uniforms
Home	Away

The Hiroshima Toyo Carp (広島東洋カープ, Hiroshima Tōyō Kāpu^?) are a professional baseball team in Japan's Central League. The team is primarily owned by the Matsuda family, led by Hajime Matsuda (松田元, Matsuda Hajime^?). Mazda is the largest single shareholder (34.2%), which is less than the portion owned by the Matsuda family (about 60%). Because of that, Mazda is not considered as the owner firm. However, the company connection is highlighted in the club name—until 1984, Mazda's official name was Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd. (東洋工業株式会社, Tōyō Kōgyō Kabushiki Gaisha^?).

Contents 1 Players of note 1.1 Current manager 1.2 Current stars 1.3 OB 1.4 Retired numbers 2 Trivia 3 External link

[edit] Players of note

[edit] Current manager

• 71 Marty Brown (from 2006 season, ex Buffalo Bisons manager)

[edit] Current stars

• 00 Koji Yamasaki - IF
•  0 Takamitsu Ioh - OF
•  1 Tomonori Maeda - OF
•  2 Akihiro Higashide - IF
•  4 Yoshinori Ogata - IF
•  5 Kenta Kurihara - IF
•  6 Eishin Soyogi - IF
•  9 Koichi Ogata - OF
• 10 Toshimitsu Higa - IF
• 11 Yasuhiro Oyamada - P
• 12 Yūta Shirahama - C
• 13 Kenta Satake - P
• 14 Nobuaki Umehara - P
• 15 Hiroki Kuroda - P
• 16 Choji Mori - P
• 17 Kan Ohtake - P
• 18 Shinji Sasaoka - P
• 19 Hiroto Tanaka - P
• 20 Katsuhiro Nagakawa - P
• 21 Shane Douglass - P
• 22 Ken Takahashi - P
• 23 Ryuji Yokoyama - P
• 24 Takaya Kawauchi - P
• 25 Takahiro Arai - IF
• 26 Jun Hirose - OF
• 27 Kazuyoshi Kimura - C
• 28 Koji Hiroike - P
• 29 Tsuyoshi Sato - P
• 31 Yoshiyuki Ishihira - C
• 33 Tomoya Sayashi - OF
• 34 Satoshi Nibe - P
• 36 Hayato Aoki - P
• 37 Kazunori Okagami - IF
• 39 Tomohiro Umetsu - P
• 40 Yoshikazu Kura - C
• 41 Shigeru Morikasa - OF
• 42 Masayuki Hasegawa - P
• 44 Shinsuke Yamada - OF
• 45 Takaaki Matsumoto - IF
• 46 Takayuki Ohshima - P
• 47 Kei Yoshida - OF
• 48 Jared Fernandez - P
• 50 Masamitsu Suzuki - OF
• 51 Masafumi Suenaga - OF
• 52 Makoto Ohsuga - IF
• 53 Masaki Hayashi - P
• 55 Shigenobu Shima - OF
• 57 Masahito Kai - IF
• 58 Shinjiro Kojima - P
• 59 Yoshihiko Yamamoto - IF
• 60 Yūki Saito - P
• 61 Sho Yamamoto - C
• 62 Keisuke Imai - P
• 65 Toshiaki Aizawa - P
• 66 Kazuhiro Uemura - C
• 67 Yui Maruki - P
• 68 Suzunosuke Kinjoh - P
• 69 Soichiro Amaya - OF
• 93 Victor Marte - P
• 121 Hiroyuki Iida - P
• 128 Tsubasa Nakatani - IF

[edit] OB

• Rick Lancellotti
• Rod Allen
• Ty Van Burkleo
• Tsunemi Tsuda
• Manabu Kitabeppu
• Luis Medina
• Takehiko Kobayakawa
• Alfonso Soriano
• Timo Pérez
• Yutaka Ohno
• Eddy Díaz
• Ramón Ramírez
• Erik Schullstrom
• Alan Newman
• Andy Sheets
• Greg LaRocca
• Kenjiro Nomura
• John Bale

[edit] Retired numbers

•  3 Sachio Kinugasa
•  8 Koji Yamamoto (ex manager)

[edit] Trivia

For Hiroshima citizens, the Carp carry a symbolic link to reconstruction.

The team was founded only five years after the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima, 1945.

Its home ballpark, Hiroshima Municipal Stadium, stands opposite the Hiroshima Peace Memorial (原爆ドーム, Genbaku Dōmu, means "A-Bomb Dome").

This ballpark is closed every memorial day, August 6, and the Carp always play in other stadiums, even if they have a home game.

The Carp have simailar uniforms to the Cincinnati Reds and the Philadelphia Phillies, both of which play in Major League Baseball.

Also, their mascot, "Slyly", is similar to the Phillie Phanatic, the mascot of the Philadelphia Phillies.

There is the 1st Japanese baseball dog called "Micky". He brings new balls to the umpire during the game.

[edit] External link

• (Japanese) Hiroshima Carp official web site

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