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	CNNSI.com - MLB Baseball - Yomiuri Giants shut down Cubs, Sosa 6-0 - Monday March 27, 2000 10:49 AM
		TOKYO (AP) -- Sammy Sosa hit the monster home run that everyone hoped he would.
		The atmosphere inside the Tokyo Dome was festive for the exhibition game, with young women in fluorescent yellow jackets weaving their way through the stands to fill up fans' beer mugs.
		Sosa was gracious in conceding defeat to the Giants.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /baseball/mlb/news/2000/03/27/cubs_tokyo_ap (452 words)

	JapanBall.com - Tokyo Yomiuri Giants Team Information
		The Giants also receive far more press coverage than other teams, particularly in the Yomiuri Shimbun, Daily Yomiuri and Sports Hochi, three newspapers that are run by the same company that owns the Giants.
		But the appeal of the Giants goes beyond the fact that they are always in the public eye.
		The Giants have played in Japan's capital city since 1936, and moved into the Tokyo Dome in 1988.
	www.japanball.com /giants.htm (454 words)

	Yomiuri Giants - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The team is often called the "Tokyo Giants" in the American press, but like the Hanshin Tigers and Orix Buffaloes, the team is officially known by the name of its corporate owner rather than the name of the city it plays in.
		The stylized lettering on the team's jerseys and caps is similar to the fancy lettering used by the Giants when they played in New York in the 1930s, although during the 1970s the Giants modernized their lettering to follow the style worn by the American Giants.
		The Giants' main rivalry is with the Hanshin Tigers, a team especially popular in the Kansai region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yomiuri_Giants (646 words)

	The Giants and the Color Barrier
		A fellow Giants player by the name of Fletcher intervened, but McCormick refused to leave the field after he was tossed from the game.
		Giants players Fletcher and Snodgrass (who would earn infamy later in the year) protested to the umpire, feeling that if the Smart Sets were able to bat against a pitcher with a clean ball, the Giants should have the same right.
		In any case, the natural team for the New York Giants to face was the Lincolns, and at the time the Lincoln Giants had Smoky Joe Williams, perhaps the greatest pitcher ever to take the mound.
	www.thediamondangle.com /marasco/negleg/nlgiants.html (1988 words)

	Panda Travel : Japan Packages : Tokyo
		Tokyo is truly a marvelous city and a perfectly magical blend of the old and the new.
		Tokyo Dome is ten minutes away by car or subway from the business and financial districts of Marunouchi and Otemachi.
		With breathtaking views of the city and Tokyo Bay, the Shinagawa Prince Hotel is located at the southern gateway to the Tokyo metropolis with immediate access to the bustling Shinagawa Station.
	www.pandaonline.com /vacations/japan/tokyo.php (1027 words)

	CNNSI.com - MLB Baseball - Yomiuri Giants complete sweep of Mets, Cubs - Tuesday March 28, 2000 12:19 PM
		TOKYO (AP) -- The New York Mets will not begin the season on a high note.
		On the eve of their season opening series against the Chicago Cubs, the Mets were beaten 9-5 by the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants on Tuesday.
		The Giants rocked Pulsipher for three more runs in the third, with the help of a run-scoring single by Hideki Matsui and an RBI double by Masahiro Kawai.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /baseball/mlb/news/2000/03/28/mets_tokyo_ap (572 words)

	Fun, Good Sportsmanship, and Fair Play – A Primer on Japanese Professional Baseball by Mike Rogers
		The team is based in Tokyo, but as with all pro-ball teams here in Japan, the proper name of the team is the sponsors’ name along with the team name.
		One of the other reasons that the Tokyo Giants are the favorite team here is because Nihon TV (Channel 4) has always broadcast all of the Giants baseball games nationwide since who-knows-when.
		Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers [send him mail] was born and raised in the USA and moved to Japan in 1984.
	www.lewrockwell.com /rogers/rogers16.html (2161 words)

	The Seattle Times: Sports: Between the seams: Japanese contractors
		TOKYO — Killing off a major-league baseball team has proven so difficult that even the rickety house of twigs known as the Montreal Expos has been able to withstand commissioner Bud Selig's huffing and puffing about contraction.
		His image is ubiquitous in Tokyo, whether staring out at commuters from poster ads on the subway system or on the daily broadcasts of Yankees games.
		Meanwhile, the Giants' televison ratings are down (though still holding a respectable 20 million or so viewers on average) and a few empty seats are visible for the first time in memory at the team's home games at Tokyo Dome.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/sports/2001961727_seam22.html (956 words)

	Ott & Oh
		The Giants would finish in fifth in 1926 and then would rebound and finish either second or third the next five years.
		The Tokyo Giants are the New York Yankees on steroids.
		The great Tokyo Giants teams that won the nine straight Japan Series purposely had no Amricans in order to prove the quality of the Japanese athlete.
	www.thediamondangle.com /marasco/peo/ottoh.html (1725 words)

	Travel Channel :: Fodor's Guides :: Tokyo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		With two artificial beaches, a bird sanctuary, and the Tokyo Sea Life Park aquarium spread over a stretch of landfill between the Arakawa and the Kyu-Edogawa rivers, Kasai Seaside Park is one of the major landmarks in the vast effort to transform Tokyo Bay into Fun City.
		Across the Tokyo Expressway from the stadium is LaQua, formerly the Korakuen Amusement Park.
		Tokyo's "offshore" leisure and commercial-development complex rises on more than 1,000 acres of landfill, connected to the city by the Yurikamome monorail from Shimbashi.
	travel.discovery.com /destinations/fodors/tokyo/sightsacts_31003_1.html (1903 words)

	Baseball Maelstrom -- an OOTP6 league
		Tokyo's Pascual Pacheco was coming off 3 straight wins in which he had held opposing offenses in check.
		Tokyo's Nagashima led off Game 2 by drilling the first pitch that he saw for a double, and the Giants quickly got on top 3-0 after just one inning.
		The Tokyo Giants jumped out to a 3-run 1st inning, but the Twins chipped away and had taken a 4-3 lead by the 9th.
	www.baseballmaelstrom.com (824 words)

	MLB stars rally to tie Yomiuri Giants - Boston.com
		TOKYO --David Wright and Andruw Jones homered in the top of the ninth inning Thursday as a team of major leaguers erased a three-run deficit to tie the Yomiuri Giants 7-7 in a warmup game for an MLB All-Star tour of Japan.
		San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy said he was pleased with the way his team fought back after being down.
		But the Giants came back with four runs in the bottom of the third off starter Chris Young.
	www.boston.com /sports/baseball/articles/2006/11/02/mlb_stars_rally_to_tie_yomiuri_giants_1162497097 (523 words)

	Bleed Cubbie Blue :: Baseball Stories: 2000 Japan Trip, Part 3
		And finally, it was off to the Tokyo Dome for the first ballgame of the trip, the Cubs/Tokyo Giants exhibition.
		Tokyo was, and is, a very expensive city, perhaps the most expensive in the world.
		The Giants came out looking as if it were their World Series, playing to win at every turn, and it showed in a 6-0 Giants shutout of the Cubs.
	www.bleedcubbieblue.com /story/2005/12/14/212415/23 (819 words)

	The Giants
		Newspapers of the day wouldn't print pictures of fl men, but if a reader saw a team named the Giants coming to town, then he or she would know that it was a fl team.
		1998 Giants won 90 and lost 72 in their debut season but plunged to 75 and 87 in 1999.
		Junior Giants is a non-competitive, non-fee baseball program for at-risk youth 5-18 years old during the summer months in areas where youth-oriented programs are needed most -- in the inner cities and outlying rural areas.
	members.aol.com /TGJDIR3/nickname.htm (2812 words)

	TIME.com: Learning by Doing -- Mar. 29, 1971 -- Page 1
		The Tokyo Giants, winners of six straight Japanese championships, gave a preview of that prospect when they met the Baltimore Orioles, winners of last year's World Series, in an exhibition game at Miami.
		Although the Giants moved into an early lead, the Orioles pulled out a 6-4 victory with two runs in the eighth inning.
		Giant," Nagashima, 35, who has led the league in hitting and runs batted in five times, earns $130,000 a year.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,944317,00.html (687 words)

	AsiaMedia :: AFN changes may augur trends for other sports media
		For years, all Tokyo Giants home games were televised throughout Japan by the Yomiuri-affiliated NTV, channel 4 in Tokyo, and its partner stations in other cities.
		In recent years, however, those terrestrial rights to some of the Giants home contests went to NHK, TV Asahi and even TV Tokyo after the inauguration of G+, a cable channel of NTV which shows all Giants home contests, regardless of which overland station is televising on a given night.
		I had to tell him, "I don't think I've ever seen any team play this bad." The Giants had just lost for the 27th time in 31 games and were in their third losing streak of eight games or more in the past five weeks.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=49253 (926 words)

	Baseball Recaps - Asian Major League Series 2002 (Grand Slam - Stats & News)
		TOKYO - De Tokyo Yomiuri Giants versloegen de Seibu Lions met 4-1 in de openingswedstrijd van de Nippon Series in de Tokyo Dome, gevuld met 45.107 toeschouwers.
		TOKYO - The Tokyo Yomiuri Giants took a 2-0 lead on Sunday in the Nippon Series after beating Seibu Lions, 9-4.
		The Giants then scored six runs in the third, when the team had five singles in a row to start the inning.
	home.planet.nl /~stoov/r261002a.htm (1843 words)

	Ichihara Sharks - Match Report
		Nonetheless, it was a quietly confident group that stood around Ageo station, plotting the downfall of the Giants and waiting for the (bloody) late comers.
		There was much kafuffle as the Giants and the Sharks worked feverishly in order to ‘install’ the flix pitch and boundary rope on what turned out to be a decent, though nonetheless Japan sized, oval.
		At this point, it would be apt to thank the Tokyo Giant’s lads for supplying some oranges, apples and drinks for the interval.
	www.ichiharasharks.com /articles/Ichihara_V_Giants_practice_26.3.2006.html (807 words)

	JBall -- Japanese baseball teams: The Yomiuri Giants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Most of their free agents have cost more than they were worth, and the team has a habit of giving large contracts to foreign players who are don't fit the team's needs.
		While the Giants are the wealthiest Japanese team, they also offer more prestige than other ball clubs.
		Hired in 1993 with the hope that his popularity might boost waning public interest in the team, Nagashima has had trouble winning pennants even though he has the richest and most talented team in Japan.
	ww1.baywell.ne.jp /fpweb/drlatham/teams/giants.htm (556 words)

	ESPN.com: MLB - All signs point to Godzilla return to New York
		TOKYO -- Sadaharu Oh played 22 seasons, hit 868 career home runs, won 15 home run titles, nine MVP awards, five batting titles, two triple crowns and led his team to 11 championships.
		The Giants center fielder singled in four at-bats in the series-opening game when the major league All-Stars routed Japan League champion Yomuiri 8-1 at the sold out Tokyo Dome, with Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi twice hitting back-to-back home runs.
		And three, Matsui is believed to still feel loyalty to the Giants and they would prefer that he signs with New York because the club's cable network has a working relationship with the Yankees' YES network.
	espn.go.com /mlb/columns/caple_jim/1458370.html (858 words)

	Yomiuri Giants - BR Bullpen
		Formed originally in 1934 by Matsutaro Shoriki to promote his newspaper, the Giants have long benefited from being owned by a media company that televises its games and gives it extra coverage in the papers.
		In 1936 when Japan had its first professional baseball league form, the Tokyo Giants emerged as a force.
		Nippon Pro Baseball tried to cut the Giants' power by instituting an amateur draft in the '60s and other teams caught up - but free agency's establishment in 1993 (thanks to pressure from Giants owner Tsuneo Watanabe) allowed the team to again rise to dominance.
	www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Yomiuri_Giants (438 words)

	Baseball - Tokyo Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
		The Tokyo dome, home to two of the city's major teams, was just a short walk from the Sakura Hotel.
		Tokyo is the center of Japanese baseball and no team is more beloved than the Yomiuri Giants.
		They play their home games at the Tokyo Dome, with the first pitch usually thrown at a very early 6 p.m.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Asia/Japan/Tokyo_to/Tokyo-969164/Sports_Travel-Tokyo-Baseball-BR-1.html (1307 words)

	Japan Media Review -- Local News Takes Backseat to Tokyo
		News in Japan almost always means news from Tokyo: Most newspapers and TV news shows here are produced by a handful of giant Tokyo-based companies that own most of the country's large papers, TV stations and magazines.
		While most cities around Japan have their own newspaper, the most read newspapers in the country are the Tokyo-based giants Asahi and Yomiuri, which have over 12 million subscribers each.
		The government recently hired Koichi Kobayashi, a professor of media communications at Tokyo's Toyo University, to head a task force that studied why local news is so weak in Japan and what can be done to improve it.
	ojr.org /japan/research/1076032072.php (1456 words)

	Japanese Baseball caps and jerseys by Ebbets Field Flannels
		Batting.314 and leading the league in RBIs, the third baseman led the Hawks to their first league title in 1946.
		Starting in 1965 the Giants won nine consecutive Central League pennants and Japan Series titles.Though he joined Yomiuri in 1959, Sadaharu Oh didn't hit many home runs his first four seasons because of a hitch in his swing.
		Founded in 1936, the Tokyo Kyojin (Giants) and Japan's oldest and most popular team, the Giants have won more games, pennants and Japan Series championships than any other team in the Japan Leagues since it's origin.
	www.dugout-memories.com /japan.html (504 words)

	'Curly' Hirota, Japan baseball star, dead at 81 - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		Jyun "Curly" Hirota, a former two-sport athlete and baseball coach at the University of Hawai'i and winner of four Japan World Series with the Tokyo Giants in the 1950s, died Sept. 10.
		Jyun Hirota joined the Tokyo Giants in 1952 and, as the starting catcher, saw the team win the Japan World Series in 1952, 1953, 1954 and 1955.
		In 1952, the Tokyo Giants acquired Hirota upon a recommendation by Yonamine, who played his first year as a Giant in 1951.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2003/Sep/17/sp/sp16a.html (865 words)

	JapanBall.com - Japan Baseball Tour Prices and Details
		We get an early start this morning to travel to Sendai via Tokyo to see Japan's newest team, the Rakuten Golden Eagles and visit with Marty Kuehnert, our most gracious host, who is the first and only American to have become the general manager of a Japanese ballclub.
		We return to Tokyo from Sendai in the morning and have the afternoon free.
		From Sapporo you fly back to Tokyo for your afternoon flight out of Tokyo and arrive home the same date, getting back the day we lost when we crossed the International Dateline on the trip over.
	www.japanball.com /itinerary.htm (3002 words)

	WORLD CHILDREN'S BASEBALL FAIR - WCBF Founders
		In 1980 he retired as a player and eventually became manager for the Tokyo Giants.
		He is currently very busy with his work as Vice President of CNN and is active with the National Board of Big Brothers/Big Sisters, the Atlanta Board of the American Cancer Society, and continues to serve as the North America Honorary Chairperson of the World Children's Baseball Fair.
		Aaron, she was one of the founders of the World Children's Baseball Fair and since the first Summer Week Event in 1990 in Los Angeles, she has been a strong moving force in forming and shaping the WCBF organization.
	home.att.net /~creativeentpr/wcbf/founders.html (374 words)

	Nippon Ham Fighters star Ogasawara accepts offer from Tokyo Giants - MSN-Mainichi Daily News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Slugger Michihiro Ogasawara of the Nippon Ham Fighters accepted an offer for a 4-year-contract with the Tokyo Giants on Wednesday, sources said.
		Giants executive Hidetoshi Kiyotake offered him the contract at talks at a hotel in Tokyo.
		Under the copyright law of Japan, use of all materials on this website, except for personal and noncommercial purposes, is prohibited without the express written permission of the Mainichi Newspapers Co. The copyright of the materials belongs to the Mainichi Newspapers Co. unless stated otherwise.
	mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp /national/news/20061122p2a00m0sp004000c.html (311 words)

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