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Hankyu Braves
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Orix Buffaloes.
Hankyu Braves
The franchise that eventually became the Orix Buffaloes was founded in 1936 under the ownership of a Japanese railway company Hanshin Kyuko Railway Company (阪神急行電鉄, Hanshin Kyuko Dentetsu; present: Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc.), as Osaka Hankyu Baseball Club (大阪阪急野球協会, Ōsaka hankyū yakyū kyōkai). Later nicknamed the Hankyu Braves (阪急ブレーブス, Hankyū Burēbusu), it was one of the first professional baseball teams in Japan, and the oldest surviving team in the Pacific League.