Lotte Giants
| Lotte Giants | |||||
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| 롯데 자이언츠 | |||||
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| League | KBO League (1982–present) | ||||
| Location | Busan, South Korea | ||||
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| Year established | 1975 | ||||
| Nickname(s) | Busan Seagulls | ||||
| Korean Series championships | (2): 1984, 1992 | ||||
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| Colors | Black and orange |
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| Retired numbers | 11 | ||||
| Ownership | Lotte | ||||
| Manager | Cho Won-woo | ||||
| General Manager | Lee Chang-won | ||||
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The Lotte Giants (Korean: 롯데 자이언츠) are a professional baseball team based in the southeastern city of Busan, South Korea, and one of the original franchises of the KBO League. The Lotte Giants are owned by the South Korean-Japanese Lotte conglomerate, which also owns the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball.
From 1982 through 1986, they played at Gudeok Baseball Stadium and since then have played at Sajik Baseball Stadium. They won the KBO Championship twice, in 1984 and 1992. The team drew about 1.38 million spectators during the 2009 season, a record which remains as the most attendance in a single season in any Korean sports league. They are often called the Busan Seagulls (Korean: 부산 갈매기) because the official bird of the city of Busan is the seagull, and their main fight song is Busan Seagulls. Coincidentally, a seagull also serves as the mascot for the Chiba Lotte Marines.
The Lotte Giants were founded as an amateur baseball team of the Korea Baseball Association in Seoul, South Korea, on 6 May 1975, when there was no professional sports team in the country. On 22 February 1982, the Giants became professional and moved to Busan, the second largest city after Seoul in South Korea.
The Lotte Giants made their the KBO League debut against the Haitai Tigers at Gudeok Baseball Stadium on 28 March 1982. They defeated the Tigers 14–2, but finished in fifth place out of six teams with a .388 winning percentage. Choi Dong-won, Yu Do-yeol, and Sim Jae-won of the Korea national baseball team postponed joining the Giants to play for the country in the 1982 Amateur World Series held in Seoul.
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