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Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
LeaguePacific League
LocationSendai
BallparkFullcast Stadium Miyagi
Year Founded2004
Nickname(s)Rakuten (楽天), Eagles (イーグルス), Washi (鷲, meaning eagle), Inuwashi (狗鷲, meaning golden eagle)
League championships(none)
Japan Series championships(none)
ColorsRed, gold, and white
Logo DesignStylized white 'E' with wing, with gold trim.
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The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles (東北楽天ゴールデンイーグルス Tōhoku Rakuten Gōruden Īgurusu) are a baseball team founded in 2004 to begin play in 2005 in the Japanese Pacific League. The team was created to fill the void left by the merger of the Orix Blue Wave and the Kintetsu Buffaloes, who merged at the end of the 2004 season due to financial difficulties, leaving the league with an odd number of teams. The team is based in Sendai, in Miyagi Prefecture. It inaugurated its first season with a 3 – 1 victory over Lotte. The team is owned by the Internet shopping company Rakuten [1].

As of the end of the 2006 season, the team's manager is Katsuya Nomura.

Players of note

Current Manager

Current players

  • 21 Hisashi Iwakuma - P
  • 18 Masahiro Tanaka - P
  • 15 Kazuo Fukumori - P
  • 91 Ying-Chieh Lin - P
  • 29 En-Yu Lin - P
  • 11 Yasuhiro Ichiba - P
  • 13 Hisashi Ogura - P
  • 49 Toyohiko Yoshida - P
  • 46 Teppei Tsuchiya - CF
  •  8 Koichi Isobe- RF
  • 23 Koichi Sekikawa - CF
  • 17 José Fernández - 3B
  • 55 Rick Short - LF or 3B or 1B
  • 42 Kevin Witt - 1B
  •  7 Takeshi Yamasaki - 1B
  •  4 Yosuke Takasu - 2b

Former Players

Retired numbers

  • 10 - This number is worn by both team mascots, Clutch and Clutchina, and is considered the number of the fan, the 'tenth player' on the field.

Records

Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
Year Manager G W L T Pct. GB BA ERA Standing
2005Yasushi Tao13638971.28151.5.2555.676
2006Katsuya Nomura13647854.35633.0.2584.306 |Total||2 seasons||272||85||182||5|| || || || ||

See also

  • "The Manpower!!!" (THE マンパワー!!!) – the first Golden Eagles' official cheer song, recorded and released as a single by J-pop idol group Morning Musume.
  • "Let's go Rakuten Eagles" (Let's Go 楽天イーグルス) – the second Golden Eagles' official cheer song, recorded by J-pop idol group DEF.DIVA of Hello! Project.
  • "Daisuki Rakuten Eagles (ダイスキ楽天イーグルス) – the third Golden Eagles' official cheer song, recorded by J-pop idol group GAM.

Gallery


Fullcast Stadium Miyagi


External links


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Eagles are large birds of prey which mainly inhabit Eurasia and Africa. Outside this area, just two species (the Bald and Golden Eagles) are found in North America north of Mexico, with a few more species in Central and South America, and three in Australia.
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Sendai (仙台市 Sendai-shi
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Miyagi Prefecture (宮城県 Miyagi-ken)

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Region Tōhoku
Island Honshū
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Chiba Lotte Marines

League Pacific League
Location Chiba
Ballpark Chiba Marine Stadium
Year Founded 1950
Nickname(s) Lotte (ロッテ), Marines (マリーンズ), Kamome (鴎, gull)
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Rakuten, Inc. (楽天株式会社 Rakuten Kabushiki-gaisha
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Bronze Athens 2004 Team Competition Hisashi Iwakuma (岩隈 久志, born April 12, 1981) is a professional baseball player from Tokyo, Japan. He is currently a starter for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.
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Masahiro Tanaka

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Bronze Barcelona 1992 Team Competition Koichi Oshima (大島 公一, born June 17, 1967) is a former professional baseball player from Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan.
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