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baseball
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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.
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Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
. Established in 2005, the Indigo Socks mainly play their home games at
Tokushima prefecture Kuramoto stadium
is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Tokushima Prefecture has a population of 728,633 (1 October 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,146 km2 (1,601 sq mi). Tokushima Prefecture borders Kagawa Prefecture to the north ...
in
Tokushima
is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Tokushima Prefecture has a population of 728,633 (1 October 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,146 km2 (1,601 sq mi). Tokushima Prefecture borders Kagawa Prefecture to the north, E ...
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Tokushima Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Tokushima Prefecture has a population of 728,633 (1 October 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,146 km2 (1,601 sq mi). Tokushima Prefecture borders Kagawa Prefecture to the north, E ...
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They won the 2011, 2013, 2014 2017 and 2019 season titles by beating other teams in the Island League playoff. They also won 2020 season title(Playoff was not held, because Covid19).
Former
MLB
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pitcher
Kazuhito Tadano
is a Japanese former baseball pitcher. He had previously pitched in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians. He is currently the Pitching Coach for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters farm team in Nippon Professional Baseball's Eastern Lea ...
temporarily played for them in September and October 2006.
Their mascot's name is Spider, スパイダー in Japanese.
References
External links
Tokushima Indigo Socks (in Japanese)
*https://japanesemascots.wordpress.com/2008/06/28/spider/
Baseball teams in Japan
Baseball teams established in 2005
Sports teams in Tokushima Prefecture
2005 establishments in Japan
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