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	The Hanshin Tigers Page
		The Hanshin Tigers will trade outfielder Osamu Hamanaka to the Orix Buffaloes in an exchange for infielder Keiichi Hirano and another player, baseball sources said Monday.
		Both sides reached an agreement as Hanshin had been searching for an agile utility player while Orix was in the market for a right-handed power hitter.
		Hanshin left-hander Makoto Yoshino and Orix right-hander Kenta Abe are also part of the exchange.
	www2.gol.com /users/michaelo/Tigers.html (470 words)

	Sake-Drenched Postcards - Hanshin Tigers Prowling for the Pennant
		But it was not to be; a thin bench and a lack of pitching depth resulted in the Tigers being dropped to third place by late June and the eventual crown going to the hated Giants to the north.
		In addition to increased security measures at the Tigers' historic Koshien Stadium, KFC officials are pondering removing their statues of the Colonel from their restaurants in downtown Osaka in order prevent a repeat of the rampage of the '85 season.
		Talk of jinxes and even the Pacific League's charging Fukuoka Daei Hawks, the team looking to be the Tigers' opponent in the Japan Series, aren't a concern for Fujita; he's satisfied just enjoying the regular season.
	www.bigempire.com /sake/hanshin_tigers.html (1207 words)

	Hanshin Tigers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hanshin (はんしん) is an industrial region in Japan; its name comes from the kanji used to write the names of Ōsaka (大阪) and Kōbe (神戸), the two largest cities in the said region.
		The Hanshin Tigers, one of the oldest professional clubs in Japan, were founded in 1935 with the team being formed in 1936.
		In 2003, when the Tigers returned to the Japan Series after 18 years with one of the worst records in the Central League, many KFC outlets in Kōbe and Ōsaka moved their Colonel Sanders statues inside until the series was over to protect them from Tiger fans.
	www.casimiro.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/h/ha/hanshin_tigers.html (433 words)

	Hanshin Tigers page
		The team is owned by the Hanshin Railway, and is referred to as the Hanshin Tigers for that reason.
		Strong pitching was key, and the bullpen had a combined ERA of 2.03 In the Japan Series the Tigers met the Toei Flyers, who had played.600 in the Pacific League.
		Hanshin Tigers, includes a MIDI version of the Tiger's fight song.
	members.tripod.com /~wallpaperman/Hanshin_Tigers_page.htm (1030 words)

	Hanshin Tigers 2001 media excerpts
		The first Tiger run was driven in by the speedy rookie centerfielder Norihiro Akahoshi on a roller in the hole between short and third that he beat out in the third inning to bring a runner home from third.
		Hanshin Tigers The Tigers have so few strengths that they are a constant threat to improve significantly with the sudden development of a young star or the acquisition of a productive regular.
		Hanshin's runs came from a sac fly from Perez in the 3rd to bring the scores level, while Imaoka drove in the go-ahead run in the 6th.
	members.aol.com /Nutts4EP/HT2001excerpts.html (4116 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 2003, when the Tigers returned to the Japan Series after 18 years with one of the worst records in the Central League, many KFC outlets in KÅbe and Åsaka moved their Colonel Sanders statues inside until the series was over to protect them from Tigers fans.
		The home field of the Tigers, Hanshin Koshien Stadium, is one of four major natural grass baseball stadiums in Japan.
		Tiger fans are known as perhaps the most fanatical and dedicated fans in all of Japanese professional baseball.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Hanshin_Tigers (985 words)

	Tigers Roar at Last \| Lifestyle \| Trends in Japan \| Web Japan
		The Tigers' march to victory has invigorated the Kansai region, where the team is based, and proved a boon to retailers nationwide staging sales in honor of the team's achievement.
		The Hanshin Tigers were founded in 1935, making them the second oldest pro baseball team in Japan behind the Yomiuri Giants (founded a year earlier).
		Hanshin fans were naturally delighted that their team had ended its long barren spell.
	web-jpn.org /trends/lifestyle/lif031018.html (804 words)

	Transwiki:Hanshin Tigers - Yellowikis (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 2003, when the Tigers returned to the Japan Series after 18 years with one of the worst records in the Central League, many KFC outlets in Kōbe and Ōsaka moved their Colonel Sanders statues inside until the series was over to protect them from rabid Tigers fans.
		The Tigers' home field, Hanshin Koshien Stadium, is the only natural grass baseball stadium in Japan.
		The Tigers' fight song "Rokko Oroshi" (The Wind of Mount Rokko) is a popular song in the Kansai area.
	www.yellowikis.org /wiki/index.php/Transwiki:Hanshin_Tigers (578 words)

	Hanshin Tigers News
		May 10, 2002--The Hanshin Tigers retained their grip on the top spot in the Central League with a 7-2 victory over the second-place Yomiuri Giants at Tokyo Dome on Friday night.
		The win was the surprising Tigers' fourth in five games this year against their traditional rivals and earned the Kansai heroes a one-game lead in the standings.
		Tigers' No. 5 hitter Shinjiro Hiyama went 4-for-5 with a double, scored a run and drove in one to tie the game in the third.
	www.rimjapan.com /tigers/articles/020510.html (646 words)

	SI.com - MLB - Hanshin clinches spot in Japan Series - Monday September 15, 2003 5:00PM
		The Hanshin Tigers defeated the Hiroshima Carp 3-2 on Monday to clinch their first Central League pennant in 18 years.
		The Tigers did it in dramatic style, defeating the Carp when outfielder Norihiro Akahoshi hit a bases-loaded single to right in the bottom of the ninth inning to lift Hanshin to the walk-off victory at Koshien Stadium.
		Hanshin players ran onto the field to mob Akahoshi but had to await the outcome of the game between Yakult and Yokohama at Yokohama Stadium.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2003/baseball/mlb/09/15/hanshin.pennant.ap (866 words)

	Hanshin Tigers 2002 Stats
		Hanshin starter Trey Moore got his first win of the season tonight after center fielder Noriharu Akahoshi came through in the clutch, breaking a 1-1 tie with an RBI single in the top of the 7th.
		He gave Hanshin the lead in the 4th with a three-run moonshot, doubled in a run in the 6th, got a solo homer in the 8th, and with the Tigers holding a slim 6-4 lead in the 9th, simply blasted the ball for another three runs, giving his team more than enough insurance to relax.
		Tiger hitters Kataoka (3 for 4) and Arias (2 for 4) hit back-to-back bombs in the 1st inning to put Hanshin in the lead 2-1.
	www.rimjapan.com /tigers/games/april.html (3590 words)

	YSHP: 1998 Outlook -- Hanshin Tigers
		Hanshin did get a small jump at the beginning of the season, winning three of their first four games.
		Still, Hanshin's pitching improved in 1997, as their team ERA dropped to 3.69 from 4.12 the year before.
		With their pitching improved, the Tigers set out after the 1997 season to build an offense that will go in the same direction.
	www.baywell.ne.jp /users/drlatham/baseball/yakyu/pre1998/tigers.htm (1232 words)

	Hanshin Tigers - BR Bullpen
		In 2003, Hanshin finally found their way back to the Japan Series behind the play of MVP Kei Igawa, batting champ Makoto Imaoka, SB leader Norihiro Akahoshi, sluggers George Arias and Tomoaki Kanemoto, closer Jeff Williams and good starting pitchers (Trey Moore, a resurgent Hideki Irabu and Tsuyoshi Shimoyanagi).
		Hanshin lost the first two games of the Japan Series but won the next two on a sacrifice fly and a homer in the bottom of the 10th.
		Two years later Hanshin returned to the Japan Series, but they were swept by the Chiba Lotte Marines, who outscored them 30-2 in the first three games before a close 3-2 finale for a 33-4 differential in the total series.
	www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Osaka_Tigers (464 words)

	Curse of Colonel Sanders@Everything2.com
		Legend arising from the Hanshin Tigers' victory in the 1985 Japan Series.
		Bass was a bearded American, instrumental to the Tigers' triumph -- not only was he the Series MVP, he had also won the Triple Crown during the regular season, and nearly broken the Japan League record for home runs.
		For years Tigers fans everywhere had rued the fateful day that the Colonel's effigy had been unceremoniously dumped in the Dotonbori, never to be seen again.
	www.everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=749091 (623 words)

	CNN.com - Japan's Tigers succumb to curse - Oct. 28, 2003
		Sales of Hanshin goods soared, while the government cleaned up the Dotonbori and nervous KFC outlets brought statues of the founder inside to avoid a not so original recipe for disaster.
		Tiger fans celebrate their team's Pacific League title last month.
		Hanshin's Hoshino, after his final game as team manager, thanked the Tigers fans and showed the calm of someone not worried about ghosts of the past.
	www.cnn.com /2003/SPORT/10/28/japan.baseball.reut/index.html (517 words)

	turbolinux \| about us \| news
		The "TigersPC" is an original model of Joshin Denki -- an advertising sponsor of the Hanshin Tigers, a team which celebrates its the 70th anniversary this year.
		The laptop is the popular "B5" form factor with an attractive Hanshin Tigers theme.
		The desktop sports a theme inspired by the Hanshin Tigers homegame uniform and runs Turbolinux's latest desktop OS, "Turbolinux Home" which debuted in stores in November, 2004 and includes the award-winning DVD playback software package "PowerDVD".
	www.turbolinux.com /cgi-bin/newsrelease/index.cgi?date2=20050812110808&mode=syosai (523 words)

	Hanshin Tigers Gamecube Pack,Limited Ed [JPN] - GC Hardware
		With the Tigers clinching the Central League pennant by beating the Hiroshima Carp, Nintendo issues the special limited edition Tigers Gamecube to celebrate the win.
		In 1985, after the Tigers' last win, frenzied fans threw a standee of Colonel Sanders (Yes, the KFC guy) into Dotonbori River.
		The Hanshin Tigers bundle includes a white Gamecube designed with pinstripes and the Championship logo, a Hanshin Tigers team tee, a fl Tigers joypad and a Gameboy Player.
	www.toylet.net /gensym-11023.html (209 words)

	CNN.com - Tigers clinch Japan baseball title - Sep. 16, 2003
		The Hanshin Tigers clinched their first Central League title in 18 years when the Yokohama BayStars beat the second-place Yakult Swallows.
		Hours after Hanshin rallied to beat the Hiroshima Carp 3-2 on Norihiro Akahoshi's bases-loaded single in the bottom of the ninth inning, Yokohama beat Yakult 12-6 to give the Tigers the title on Monday.
		Tigers fans are considered unique for their undying loyalty and faith in the team, and their team's return to championship-winning form has even been seen as an omen of for the state of the country.
	cnn.com /2003/SPORT/09/15/japan.tigers.ap (362 words)

	Undercover in Japan » 2005 » September
		The very mighty Hanshin Tigers Baseball Team have just won the 2005 Japanese League in their 70th anniversary year by beating their hated rivals the Tokyo Giants.
		Hanshin’s winning season in 2003 ended an 18-year pennant drought that was referred to by Tiger fans as “The Curse of the Colonel.”
		In 1985, an overzealous Hanshin fan threw a statue of Colonel Sanders taken from a nearby Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet into Osaka’s Dotonbori River.
	quaisi.net /2005/09 (1027 words)

	Hanshin Tigers, Major League Baseball - CBS SportsLine.com
		We have a hunch these are the real Tigers: Merely a nice team that played out of their skulls in the first half (59-29) and are much closer to the.500 team they have proven to be in the second half.
		The Tigers do still have the best ERA in the majors at 3.71 (wow, since when is that a worthy league-leading figure), but only five teams in baseball have scored less runs in the past week.
		The vice is closing tightly on the Tigers right now, so tight they might not be able to wiggle their way out of it.
	cbs.sportsline.com /mlb/story/9655790/rss (1432 words)

	May 22, 2003 - Koshien Stadium - Carp vs Tigers
		And indeed there was no surrender in the Central League leading Hanshin Tigers as Tomoaki Kanemoto hit a 2-run homer in the bottom of the eighth inning off of Hiroshima's Chris Brock to give the Tigers a 5-4 before a nearly full house at historic Koshien Stadium.
		And like Wrigley's inhabitants, the Tigers are supported by a devoted group of fans who spend much of their time cheering on a team that resides in the lower half of the standings and saw its best years before World War II.
		The outfield is grass, but there is no warning track, just a line painted on the grass that doesn't even extend all the way to the foul line.
	home.earthlink.net /~japanbbtrip2003/id20.html (455 words)

	Tigers, Tigers burning bright: can a Kansai institution convert pennants into pennies? - Hanshin Tigers baseball team ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Tigers, meanwhile, belong to all of Kansai.
		The Tigers were founded in 1935, and for their first few years ruled the Central League roost.
		So the legend goes, fans who bore a resemblance to the Tigers players were encouraged to leap from the bridge and take the plunge.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0NTN/is_46/ai_108722585 (970 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Asia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sept. 12 (Bloomberg) -- The Hanshin Tigers' march to their first Japanese baseball pennant in 18 years is worth more than $5 million to 190,000 customers of Amagasaki Shinkin Bank.
		Hanshin Department Store Ltd. surged 87 percent from April 1 to Sept. 10, and Hanshin Electric Railway Co. rose 20 percent.
		Hanshin Railway, which owns the Tigers, predicted this week it will earn a higher-than-expected 2.1 billion yen in net income in the six months ending Sept. 30, boosted by the team's success, which followed 10 last-place finishes in 17 years.
	quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=asj46swyfG5U&refer=asia (562 words)

	The Hanshin Tigers shop (Keio Department Store Co., Ltd.)
		It is 2003, the Hanshin Tigers which is in the best condition.
		The 1 (thinking to be 1 only east of Osaka as far as it sees Hanshin Tigers's official site) Hanshin Tigers shop only is in the 7th floor of "Keio Department Store Co., Ltd." which is in the Shinjuku Station western exit in Kanto.
		Since Yoshida Tigers, it is floundering Tigers but this year, to win the victory, the bottom is pleasant from now about what thing it becomes when winning the victory.
	www.f-banchan.net /tokyo/hansin/hansin_AD.htm (206 words)

	۞ Hanshin Tigers - Infos und Erklärungen auf www.lebenToday.de (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Die Hanshin Tigers spielen in der Central League.
		Die Fan-Gemeinde der Tigers ist eine der größten in Japan, insbesondere seit das Team in den letzten Jahren zu einem der stärksten geworden ist.
		In den vergangenen Jahren konnten die Hanshin Tigers zweimal (2003, 2005) die Meisterschaft der Central League für sich entscheiden.
	www.lebentoday.de /Hanshin_Tigers (377 words)

	JapanBall.com - Hanshin Tigers Team Information
		While Hanshin has compiled the Central League's second-best franchise record, they are a distant second from the Giants in numbers of pennants and Japan Series championships won.
		Some Tigers fans shaved the team's logo on their scalps or dived into polluted canals while others were accused of hijacking a train.
		In less successful times, Hanshin fans have been known to confront and assault opposing players outside the ballpark while hurling batteries and pachinko balls inside.
	www.japanball.com /tigers.htm (241 words)

	CNN.com - Japan's Tigers succumb to curse - Oct. 28, 2003
		Sales of Hanshin goods soared, while the government cleaned up the Dotonbori and nervous KFC outlets brought statues of the founder inside to avoid a not so original recipe for disaster.
		But many ordinary Japanese facing a decade-long economic slump identify with the underdog Tigers, an anti-establishment symbol in a country where big companies, a long-time ruling party and elite call most of the shots.
		Hanshin's Hoshino, after his final game as team manager, thanked the Tigers fans and showed the calm of someone not worried about ghosts of the past.
	cnn.com /2003/SPORT/10/28/japan.baseball.reut/index.html (517 words)

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