Yamato Baseball Club

Yamato Baseball Club
Yamato Baseball Club
Information
League	Japanese Baseball League
Ballpark	Korakuen Stadium
Year established	1937
Former name(s)	Korakuen Eagles (1937–1939); Kurowashi (1940–1941)
Ownership	Dai-Nippon Beer (1939–1941); Yamato Ironworks (1942–1943)
Manager	Kazutaka Terauchi (1940–1942)

The Yamato Baseball Club was a Japanese baseball team in the Japanese Baseball League (JBL). Based in Tokyo, the franchise was founded as the Korakuen Eagles before the 1937 season and was dissolved before the 1944 season.

Harris and Kameda in the late 1930s

In October 1940 (responding to rising hostility toward the West due to World War II), the league outlawed the use of English in Japanese baseball.[1] and the team changed its name to Kurowashi (Black Eagles in Japanese) through 1941. The team was owned by Ryutaro Takahashi (of Dai-Nippon Beer) from 1939 to 1941.

Kenkichi Saeki, president of Yamato Ironworks, purchased the team in 1942. As a result, the team changed its name to the Yamato Baseball Club.[1]

During its nine seasons of existence (including split fall and spring campaigns in 1937–1938), the franchise only had two winning campaigns and never finished higher than third in the JBL standings. (They usually finished in the second division.) As a result, the team was dissolved before the 1944 season (along with another JBL team, the Nishitetsu Baseball Club).

Team statistics

Year	Team name	Wins	Losses	Ties	Win/Loss Percentage	Standings	Games behind
1937 (spring)	Eagles	12	44	0	.214	8	30
1937 (fall)	Eagles	28	19	2	.596	3	10.5
1938 (spring)	Eagles	18	15	2	.545	4	10
1938 (fall)	Eagles	15	20	5	.429	7	13
1939	Eagles	29	65	2	.309	9	38
1940	Kurowashi	46	54	4	.460	6	28
1941	Kurowashi	28	56	1	.333	7	34
1942	Yamato	27	68	10	.284	8	43.5
1943	Yamato	35	43	6	.449	6	17.5

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References

"Kurowashi," Baseball-Reference.com. Accessed Mar. 7, 2015.

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[BR-1] "Kurowashi," Baseball-Reference.com. Accessed Mar. 7, 2015.