Nankai Hawks
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Nippon Professional Baseball (1950–present)
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| Ballpark | Fukuoka Dome (1993–present) | ||||
| Year established | 1938 | ||||
| Nickname(s) | Taka (鷹?, hawk) | ||||
| Japanese Baseball League titles | 2 (1946, 1948) | ||||
| Pacific League pennants | 17 (1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1959, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1973, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015) | ||||
| Japan Series championships | 7 (1959, 1964, 1999, 2003, 2011, 2014, 2015) | ||||
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| Former league(s) | Japanese Baseball League (1938–1949) | ||||
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| Colors | Yellow, Black |
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| Ownership | SoftBank | ||||
| Manager | Kimiyasu Kudoh | ||||
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Nippon Professional Baseball (1950–present)
The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (福岡ソフトバンクホークス Fukuoka Sofutobanku Hōkusu?) are a Japanese baseball team based in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture. The team was bought on January 28, 2005 by the SoftBank Corporation.
The team was formerly known as the Nankai Hawks and was based in Osaka. In 1988, Daiei bought the team from Osaka's Nankai Electric Railway Co., and its headquarters were moved to Fukuoka (which had been without NPB baseball since the Lions departed in 1979). The Daiei Hawks won the Pacific League championship in 1999, 2000 and 2003 and won the Japan Series in 1999, 2003, and as the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, the 2011 Japan Series, 2014 Japan Series and 2015 Japan Series.
The franchise's original name was Nankai when it joined the Japanese Baseball League (JBL) in 1938, with the name originating with the Nankai Electric Railway Co., which owned the team at the time. The team's name was changed to Kinki Nippon in mid-1944 as it received partial sponsorship from Kinki Nippon Railway. After the 1945 hiatus in the JBL due to the Pacific War, in 1946 the team's name was changed to Kinki Great Ring and the team won the JBL championship. Throughout the name changes the club underwent between 1938 and 1946, Nankai Electric Railway Co. (in one form or another) maintained ownership of the franchise.
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