Nagoya Kinko
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League | Japanese Baseball League |
Year established | 1936 |
Year folded | 1940; merged with Tsubasa Baseball Club |
Former name(s) | Nagoya Golden Dolphins (1936) |
Ownership | Nagoya Shimbun |
Manager | Genzaburo Okada (1936–1940)[1] |
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Nagoya Kinko (long name: Nagoya Kinnosachihiko)[1] was a Japanese baseball team that played in the Japanese Baseball League (JBL) before it merged with another team. It was owned by the daily broadsheet Nagoya Shimbun.[1] Notable players for the team over the course of its existence included Harris McGalliard and Toshio Kurosawa.
The club was founded as the Nagoya Golden Dolphins before the 1936 JBL season. In 1937 the team changed its name to Nagoya Kinko.
The franchise never had a winning record and never placed higher than fourth in the league standings. Few players wanted to play for the team,[1] and it merged with the Tsubasa Baseball Club after the 1940 season to form the Taiyō Baseball Club (that franchise was itself dissolved following the 1943 JBL season).
Team statistics
Year | Team name | Games | Wins | Losses | Ties | Win/Loss Percentage | Standings | Games behind |
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1936 (fall) | Golden Dolphins | 28 | 9 | 19 | 0 | .321 | 6/7 | 14 |
1937 | Kinko | 105 | 25 | 30 | 1 | .455 | 5/8 | 16.5 |
23 | 25 | 1 | .479 | 4/8 | 16 | |||
1938 | 75 | 13 | 22 | 0 | .371 | 6/9 | 10 | |
11 | 29 | 0 | .275 | 9/9 | 19.5 | |||
1939 | 96 | 36 | 56 | 4 | .391 | 7/9 | 30 | |
1940 | 104 | 34 | 63 | 7 | .351 | 8/8 | 38.5 | |
Overall record | 408 | 151 | 244 | 13 | .386 |
References
- ^ a b c d "Nagoya Kinko", Baseball-Reference.com. Accessed Mar. 8, 2015.
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