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team in the

Shikoku Island League Plus The is an independent professional baseball league on the island of Shikoku in Japan. (None of the teams in Nippon Professional Baseball are based in Shikoku.) The league currently has four teams, and has its league headquarters in Takamatsu. Th ...

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. Established in 2005, the Fighting Dogs play their home games mainly at Kōchi Stadium in

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city of

Kōchi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Kōchi Prefecture has a population of 757,914 (1 December 2011) and has a geographic area of 7,103 km2 (2,742 sq mi). Kōchi Prefecture borders Ehime Prefecture to the northwest and ...

. The Dogs were the winners of the League's inaugural 2005 season. They won the 2009 season title by beating

Nagasaki Saints The were a semi-professional baseball team in the Shikoku-Kyūshū Island League of Japan that played out of Nagasaki Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Nagasaki Prefecture has a population of 1,314,078 ...

in the Island League playoff.

Notable players

Manny Ramirez Manuel Arístides Ramírez Onelcida (born May 30, 1972) is a Dominican-American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for parts of 19 seasons. He played with the Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, Lo ...

* Lars Anderson * Hideki Irabu *

Frédéric Hanvi Frédéric Hanvi (born 2 May 1989 in Senlis, France) is a French baseball player, having played for several junior national teams in France, and for several French pro teams before being scouted by Major League Baseball. He was signed to a seven-y ...

*Dioni Soriano * Katsuya Kakunaka *Takeshi Yamamoto

External links

Kōchi Fighting Dogs
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