Brother Elephants

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Brother Elephants

League

Chinese Professional Baseball League

Location

Taipei

Ballpark

None

Year Founded

1989

League championships

1992 1st Half
1992 2nd Half
1993 1st Half
1994 1st Half
1994 2nd Half
2001 2nd Half
2002 1st Half
2002 2nd Half
2003 2nd Half

Taiwan Series championships

1992, 1993, 1994, 2001, 2002, 2003

Colors

Yellow

Uniforms






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Brother Elephants (兄弟象) is a professional baseball team in Taiwan. It was originally established as an amateur team in 1984 by the Brother Hotel located in Taipei City, and later joined the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) in 1989. Brother Hotel's chairman Hung Teng-sheng (洪騰勝) also acted as CPBL's secretary-general from 1989 until now, and is respected as "father of the CPBL".

The Brother Elephants wear yellow uniforms throughout its history and makes Taipei its home city, with a training field in Longtan Township, Taoyuan County.

1 History
2 Regular Season Records
3 Playoff Records
- 3.1 Taiwan Series
- 3.2 Challenger Cup
4 External links
5 See also

[edit] History

On March 17, 1990 the Brother Elephants played the first historical CPBL game against the Uni-President Lions in the now demolished Taipei Municipal Baseball Stadium with a full house of 14,350 in attendance. Interestingly, the two teams are also the only two remaining original teams of the CPBL.

With its long history from the amateur era plus a successful marketing strategy and management, the Brother Elephants has long been the most popular Taiwanese baseball team, also winning six, CPBL championships, more than any other team. Its current roster includes two local batting stars Chen Chih-yuan and Peng Cheng-min, both of whom participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics. Cola Yeh, a former Brother Elephant's player, later moved to New Zealand and started his own baseball club, the Cola Yeh Baseball team. He coached the New Zealand Little League Baseball team.

Despite having the best season-long record for the 2004 season, the Elephants were unable to participate in the Taiwan Series because they had won neither half season. This resulted in the expansion of the playoffs to three teams beginning in 2005, where the team with the best season-long record among non-champions for the season would gain a wildcard berth, thus preventing a similar occurrence in the future.

[edit] Regular Season Records

Season	First Half-Season					Second Half-Season
Season	Wins	Losses	Ties	Pct.	Place	Wins	Losses	Ties	Pct.	Place
1990	17	25	3	.405	3	17	24	4	.415	4
1991	21	23	1	.477	3	17	26	2	.395	4
1992	27	17	1	.614	1	24	18	3	.571	1
1993	28	16	1	.636	1	24	20	1	.545	2
1994	34	11	0	.756	1	30	13	2	.698	1
1995	25	25	0	.500	4	23	26	1	.469	3
1996	29	19	2	.604	2	23	24	3	.489	4
1997	23	20	5	.535	3	22	24	2	.478	5
1998	33	69	3	.324	6
1999	37	53	4	.411	5
2000	21	21	3	.500	3	17	27	1	.386	4
2001	17	23	5	.435	3	27	16	2	.628	1
2002	25	17	3	.595	1	28	16	1	.636	1
2003	27	20	3	.574	3	36	11	3	.766	1
2004	26	23	1	.531	3	28	22	0	.560	2
2005	25	23	2	.521	3	22	26	2	.458	6
2006	20	29	1	.408	5	20	30	0	.400	6