Fighters: 2006 Champions

The Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters winning the Japan Series on October 26th, 2006 by defeating the Chunichi Dragons 4-1, taking the series and the championship 4 games to 1.
This has clips of the last out, the celebration, and some comments from manager Trey Hillman and the game's MVP Atsunori Inaba.
WBC champs, Japan Series champs, and 2nd place in the biggest Japanese high school tournament: Hokkaido kicks the world's arse in baseball.

*Sorry for the poor quality. I only have an antenna.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• baseball
• Japan
• Hokkaido
• Nippon
• Ham
• Fighters
• nichi
• hamu
• 2006
• Series
• champions
• Shinjo
• Hillman
• Sapporo

[ajohnst1]

Hillman = New manager of the Kansas City Royals. Woohoo.

[kcthatsawinner]

Yes, the All Star game will be at Kauffman Stadium in 2012.

[angletheta]

Is it true that the All-Star game in 2012 was awarded to the Kansas City Royals?

[angletheta]

Is it true that the All-Star game in 2012 was awarded to the Kansas City Royals?

[sea777story777]

Hillman was an excellent supervisor who saw uncommonly.

[VaderNES]

Go Fighters!

[Haroldbeavis1969]

Many thanks Heartless. First answer that i heard on the subject that makes sense.

[HeartlessConservativ]

As for the team names the letters are in English because Japanese teams are not named after cities, but rather after the company which owns them. Most of these companies do international businesses so their names are usually spelled in Romanji. As for the rest, American-English terms are used in baseball pretty much anywhere.

[Haroldbeavis1969]

I'm confused. I thought romaji was merely a transliteration of the Japanese language into English characters. My question is why don't Japanese uniforms/stadiums feature Japanese characters exclusively?

[jrocker311]

nippon is not english. it's japanese romaji. japan has not only hiragata, katakana and kanji but also romaji based on western letters.

[stoneyrollins59]

Why do Japanese baseball teams have English letters on their uniforms?