Hey all, throughout December, and into January, I'll be putting out brief history videos on all 12 NPB teams. The next video will be on the Hiroshima Toyo Carp. My Patreon: / gaijinbaseball My Twitter: / gaijinbaseball
Between your channel, Yakyu Cosmopolitan and HTEN. I have all the NPB knowledge I could need. Y'all do tremendous work for the English speaking NPB fans! Thank you!
The Giants may be the Yankees of Japan, but the Hawks are the Cardinals of NPB albeit with no cheating and more consistency. The ups and downs of this team are amazing and kind of follow that of the team they were almost named after. It's also impressive how this team under Sadaharu Oh has been able to transform how much NPB's farm system is done through the Hawks. Another excellent video as always, Gaijin Baseball. Can't wait to see the next one.
@7:04: The only reason Nankai held on to the Hawks was because the then-president of Nankai Railway and primary owner of the team, Den Kawakatsu refused to give up on what was kind of his baby; he was not swayed by the company's board of directors and union leadership. Then Mr. Kawakatsu died on April 23, 1988 at 86, and Nanaki's surviving management refused to support what had by then become a money-losing venture.
As an Eagles fan.. I somehow never thought SoftBank Dynasty as the "Reign of Terror". Because compared to Yomiuri (And Tsuneo Watanabe in general), they not do anything douchebaggery as what Giants did in the past 100 years (Draft Dodgers, Scandal coverup by media controlled by themselves etc). In that sense, I guess I "tolerated" SoftBank Dynasty more than Yomiuri (?)
Major Hawks fan here. Multiple championships I saw in person. Weekly attended Cuban-American loudest gaijin in the stadium. Unfortunately I moved to Tokyo but I still go to the visitor cheering section side. Hawks for life. Suck it Lions.
Love the content! I can't wait for your brief history on the Carp as a gaijin living in Hiroshima and goes to Carp games whenever I can afford the time and the money to do so.
Great video. I lived in Tokyo in the 80s and 90s when the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks were called the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks. Daiei was a department store chain.
Fun fact: Both SoftBank and Lotte were founded by ethnic Koreans. Their ancestors moved to Japan when the pre-WWII Imperial Japan was still colonising Korea.
