Hiroshima Toyo Carp

Stone marker honoring the Carp Central League Champion teams

The Hiroshima Toyo Carp (広島東洋カープ, Hiroshima Tōyō Kāpu) is a Japanese professional baseball team in the city of Hiroshima and Hiroshima Prefecture.^[1] The Carp play in Japan's Central League or Ce League (セリーグ, Se reegu).^[2]

The team's ballpark is Mazda Stadium.

The Carp is a team with the greatest number of perfect games in Japanese professional baseball.

History

The team joined the Central League as the Hiroshima Carp in 1949.^[3] Carp Won Central League Championship for the first time in 1975.

The team mascot "Slyly" bears resemblance to the Phillie Phanatic of the Philadelphia Phillies.^[1] "Carp Boya" is another team mascot.

League titles

• Japan series titles(3) 1979,1980,1984
• Central League Championship (6) 1975,1979,1980,1984,1986,1991

Notable players

• Kōji Yamamoto (山本 浩二, Yamamoto Kōji)^[4]
• Sachio Kinugasa (衣笠　祥雄, kinugasa Sachio)^[5]

Current manager

• 77 Kenjiro Nomura (野村 謙二郎, Nomura Kenjiro) ^[6]

Current players

•  1 Tomonori Maeda (前田 智徳, Maeda Tomonori) ^[7]
•  2 Akihiro Higashide (東出 輝裕, Nomura Kenjiro) ^[8]
•  5 Kenta Kuirhara (栗原　健太, Kurihara Kenta) ^[9]
•  6 Eishin Soyogi (梵　英心, Soyogi Eishin) ^[10]
• 18 Kenta Maeda (前田 健太, Maeda Kenta) ^[11]
• 25 Takuro Ishii (石井 琢朗, Ishii Takuro) ^[12]
• 66 Shogo Kimura (木村 昇吾, Kimura Shogo) ^[13]

MLB players

• Hiroki Kuroda (黒田 博樹, Kuroda Hiroki)^[14]
• Alfonso Guilleard Soriano^[15]
• Colby Lewis
• Ken Takahashi (高橋 建, Takahashi Ken)^[16]

Gallery

• 
  The field at Mazda Stadium
• 
  Outside Mazda Stadium

Related pages

• Sports in Japan

References

1. Hiroshima. Wikivoyage.
2. Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), "Teams (Rosters, Schedules/Scores, Individual Stats); retrieved 2012-7-17.
3. Bjarkman, Peter C. (2005). Diamonds Around the Globe: The Encyclopedia of International Baseball. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 151. ISBN 978-0-313-32268-6.
4. BaseballReference.com, Koji Yamamoto; retrieved 2012-7-17.
5. BaseballReference.com, Sachio Kinugasa; retrieved 2012-7-17.
6. BaseballReference.com, Kenjiro Nomura; retrieved 2012-7-17.
7. BaseballReference.com, Tomonori Maeda; retrieved 2012-7-17.
8. BaseballReference.com, Akihiro Higashide; retrieved 2012-7-17.
9. BaseballReference.com, Kenta Kuirhara; retrieved 2012-7-17.
10. BaseballReference.com, Eishin Soyogi; retrieved 2012-7-18.
11. BaseballReference.com, Kenta Maeda; retrieved 2012-7-18.
12. BaseballReference.com, Takuro Ishii; retrieved 2012-7-18.
13. BaseballReference.com, Shogo Kimura; retrieved 2012-7-18.
14. BaseballReference.com, Hiroki Kuroda; retrieved 2012-7-18.
15. BaseballReference.com, Alfonso Soriano; retrieved 2012-7-18.
16. BaseballReference.com, Ken Takahashi; retrieved 2012-7-18.

Other websites

Media related to Hiroshima Toyo Carp at Wikimedia Commons

• (in Japanese) Hiroshima Carp official web site
• (in Japanese) japanesebaseball.com Carp page
• (in Japanese) Carp train (operated by Hiroden) Archived 2009-08-22 at the Wayback Machine