Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles

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Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
League	Pacific League
Location	Sendai
Ballpark	Fullcast Stadium Miyagi
Year Founded	2004
Nickname(s)	Rakuten (楽天), Eagles (イーグルス), Washi (鷲, meaning eagle), Inuwashi (狗鷲, meaning golden eagle)
League championships	(none)
Japan Series championships	(none)
Colors	Red, gold, and white
Logo Design	Stylized white 'E' with wing, with gold trim.
Uniforms
Home	Away

The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles (東北楽天ゴールデンイーグルス, Tōhoku Rakuten Gōruden Īgurusu^?) is a baseball team founded in 2004 to begin play in 2005 in the Japanese Pacific League. The team was created to fill the void left by the merger of the Orix Blue Wave and the Kintetsu Buffaloes, who merged at the end of the 2004 season due to financial difficulties, leaving the league with an odd number of teams. The team is based in Sendai, in Miyagi Prefecture. It inaugurated its first season with a 3 – 1 victory over Lotte. The team is owned by the Internet shopping company Rakuten [1].

As of the end of the 2006 season, the team's manager is Katsuya Nomura.

Contents 1 Players of note 1.1 Retired numbers 2 See also 3 Gallery 4 External links

[edit] Players of note

[edit] Retired numbers

• 10 - This number is worn by both team mascots, Clutch and Clutchina, and is considered the number of the fan, the 'tenth player' on the field.

[edit] See also

• THE MANPOWER!!! - The Golden Eagles' official cheer song, recorded and released as a single by J-pop idol group Morning Musume.
• Let's go Rakuten Eagles (LET'S GO 楽天イーグルス) - The new Golden Eagles' official cheer song, recorded by J-pop idol group DEF.DIVA of Hello! Project.

[edit] Gallery

Fullcast Stadium Miyagi

[edit] External links

• (Japanese) Official page for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles

Japanese Professional Baseball
Central League			Pacific League
Yomiuri Giants	Chunichi Dragons	Tokyo Yakult Swallows	Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters	Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles	Chiba Lotte Marines
Hiroshima Toyo Carp	Hanshin Tigers	Yokohama BayStars	Seibu Lions	Orix Buffaloes	Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
Japan Series - Japanese Baseball League (former) - edit table