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The Chunichi Dragons (中日ドラゴンズ, Chūnichi Doragonzu) are a professional baseball team based in Nagoya, the chief city in the Chūbu region of Japan. The team plays in the Central League of Nippon Professional Baseball .
The Chunichi Dragons are a professional baseball team based in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. The Dragons are members of the Central League (CL) in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). In baseball, the head coach of a team is called the manager, or more formally, the field manager. The duties of the team manager include team strategy and leadership on ...
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The Central League was founded in 1949 with eight teams: four holdovers from the previous Japanese Baseball League — the Chunichi Dragons, the Hanshin Tigers, the Yomiuri Giants, and the Shochiku Robins (formerly the Taiyō Robins) — and four new teams — the Hiroshima Carp, the Kokutetsu Swallows, the Nishi Nippon Pirates, and the Taiyō Whales.
The Giants and one of the teams that would eventually form the Dragons, then known as the Nagoya Shachihoko, first met on February 5, 1936 at Narumi Baseball Stadium in the suburbs of Nagoya, marking the first ever game in the history of the Japanese Professional Baseball League, which is now known as Nippon Professional Baseball.
Team Mascot(s) Description Chunichi Dragons: Doala, Shaolon, Paolon An anthropomorphic blue koala, and 2 dragons. Doala is the main mascot, and Shalon appears on the logo. Doala is a koala because Nagoya is home to Japan's first koala. He is also friends with Tsubakuro, the mascot of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. [9]
Japanese baseball was organized originally as the Japanese Baseball League (JBL), starting with the 1936 season. For the 1950 season, the organization was renamed Nippon Professional Baseball and with additional clubs joining, it was broken into the Central League (CL) and the Pacific League (PL).
The 2021 Chunichi Dragons season is the 85th season of the franchise in Nippon Professional Baseball, also the 85th season in Nagoya, the 75th season under Chunichi Shimbun, and the 27th season in Nagoya Dome. This is also the 3rd and final season under manager Tsuyoshi Yoda. He was replaced by Kazuyoshi Tatsunami for 2022.