NPB commissioner Atsushi Saito announced in an online press conference that the NPB will start the 2020 season on June 19. The season will be reduced to 120 games. The teams will play no interleague games and will face each league opponent 24 times. This year, no All-Star Game will be played. Practice games will…
The first Central League started to play in 1888 and lasted only one season. Since then, several leagues adopted the name Central League, most of them playing in the area of the Great Lakes. Other years that the Central League played were: 1897, 1900, 1903-1917, 1920-1922, 1926, 1928-1930, 1932, 1934 and 1948-1951. In 1888 the…
The two Dutchies that play in the Japanese professional league, the NPB, were very successful today in game two of the Climax Series, the semi finals of Japanese Pro Baseball. Curacao born Wladimir Balentien bounced back from a hitless game yesterday. His team, the Yakult Swallows, were not so successful yesterday either as they fell…
