The Gunma Diamond Pegasus (群馬ダイヤモンドペガサス , Gunma Daiyamondo Pegasasu) are a semi-professional baseball team in the Baseball Challenge League of Japan. The team was established as part of the expansion of the league, and began play in the 2008 season. Their home is Gunma Prefecture.
The Diamond Pegasus were Jōshin'etsu Division winners from 2008–2010; they won the Baseball Challenge League championship in 2009.
Long-time Yomiuri Giants outfielder Takayuki Shimizu played for Gunma in 2010. Venezuelan left-hander Robert Zarate pitched for Gunma in 2010 before signing with Nippon Professional Baseball's Hanshin Tigers.
Long-time NPB reliever Soichi Fujita pitched for Gunma in 2012, as did French players Frédéric Hanvi and Felix Brown.
The 2014 Diamond Pegasus roster had a strong Venezuelan flavor: Long-time Nippon Professional Baseball slugger Alex Ramírez played for the team as a player-coach, hitting .305 with 7 home runs and 38 RBI in 45 games. Fellow countrymen and also former NPB players Levi Romero and Robert Zarate (who returned to the team after three seasons with Hanshin) were also on the 2014 squad.
Following the 2014 season, Ramírez retired from playing and was named the Gunma Pegasus' Senior Director. Zarate was scouted by Major League Baseball's Tampa Bay Rays, and in 2015 joined their organization.
Fukushima Red Hoops (Fukushima Red Hoops, Fukushima RedHopes) is a professional baseball independent league of Baseball Challenge League belong to the (Route Inn BC league) Fukushima Prefecture, is a professional baseball team of. Joined the league since 2015 . The team name before November 20, 2018 is " Fukushima Hoops " (the details of the name change will be described later). It is the first (and only) Tohoku- based baseball team in the league and belongs to the east. The name of the team at the time of launch was attached with the intention of wanting children who have been forced to restrict evacuation and play outside the Great East Japan Earthquake to have "hope" through baseball .
Among baseball teams participating in the league as of 2018, no one ( including a training player ) was appointed at a professional baseball draft meeting . At the time of the concept announcement, Tetsuji Murayama, representative of Japan Baseball Marketing (league management company), decided not to have a dedicated stadium but travel around the stadium in the prefecture to play a home game in Fukushima. This is the same as many of the other league teams that have traditionally belonged .
The official stadiums by year until 2018 are as follows. Concerning the decrease in holding at Kaiseisan Baseball Stadium and Azuma Stadium in 2018, it has been pointed out that the relationship with the management difficulties described later. Until league participation
2014 May 20 , Koriyama , president of the "fan", headquartered in, in the form of a team representative of the Lv Tomiko, launched the "Citizens team founded promote preparation room", " Fukushima Prefectural team activities as" Started.
On June 24, 2014, at the representative club meeting of member clubs of BCL held in Nagaoka City , Niigata , with the baseball team " Musashi Heat Bears " of Saitama Prefecture , the league main member admission of the Fukushima prefecture baseball club was approved, 2015 participation from the league during the season has been determined [20] .
Lv representative, at a press conference after the meeting, the original plan to be ahead of schedule for one month, said it would publish the team name and mascot in July [20] .
It was announced on July 18 that the name of the new team was "Fukushima Hoops" . At the same time, the team logo and the team mascot, which images the brother and sister of Kibitaki , a bird of Fukushima prefecture, were announced. He participated in a draft meeting in December 2014 and was scheduled to announce the players in January 2015.
On November 4, a former professional baseball player and Tsuyoshi Ono , currently chairman of the Ashinowakamatsu City "Ashinomaki Hotel" , was announced at the press conference held at the Fukushima prefectural government that he was appointed as a baseball team GM. In addition, on November 27 , the Akinori Iwamura is the appointed director in the form of players concurrently it was revealed by the media.
On December 1st, it was announced that the team representative Toshiyuki Ogitani will be appointed as the president and representative director of Fukushima Hoops through the team official Twitter
Tochigi Golden Braves is a professional baseball team in Tochigi Prefecture. As a team color "GOLDEN" and players as a brave person who challenges dreams "BRAVES", that is, "Tochigi no Hero", They thought that they want to become a team for the courage and hope. Their idea is aiming for a hot team, the organization is a perfect place for children having dreams of becoming players and help them to come true their big dream in the future.
There is no schedule or ticket right now.
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