1960 Nippon Professional Baseball season

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1960 NPB season
League Nippon Professional Baseball
Sport Baseball
Central League Pennant
League champions Taiyo Whales
  Runners-up Yomiuri Giants
Season MVP Noboru Akiyama (TAI)
Pacific League Pennant
League champions Daimai Orions
  Runners-up Nankai Hawks
Season MVP Kazuhiro Yamauchi (DAI)
Japan Series
Champions Taiyo Whales
  Runners-up Daimai Orions
Finals MVP Akihito Kondo (TAI)
NPB seasons

The 1960 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the eleventh season of operation of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Nippon Professional Baseball baseball league representing the highest level of professional baseball in Japan

Nippon Professional Baseball or NPB is the highest level of baseball in Japan. Locally, it is often called Puro Yakyū (プロ野球), meaning Professional Baseball. Outside Japan, it is often just referred to as "Japanese baseball". The roots of the league can be traced back to the formation of the "Greater Japan Tokyo Baseball Club" in Tokyo, founded 1934 and the original circuit for the sport in the Empire two years later - Japanese Baseball League (1936-1949), and surprisingly even continued to play through the dark years of total warfare with Japan's invasion of Manchuria in 1931, and intervening in the Chinese Civil War in 1937 with the wider Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), and into the greater World War II (1939-1945).

Contents

Regular season

Standings

Central League regular season standings
Team G W L T Pct. GB
Taiyo Whales 13070564.554
Yomiuri Giants 13066613.5194.5
Osaka Tigers 13064624.5086.0
Hiroshima Carp 13062617.5046.5
Chunichi Dragons 13063670.4859.0
Kokutetsu Swallows 13054724.43116.0
Pacific League regular season standings
Team G W L T Pct. GB
Daimai Orions 13382483.631
Nankai Hawks 13678526.6004.0
Nishitetsu Lions 13670606.53812.0
Hankyu Braves 13665656.50017.0
Toei Flyers 13252782.40030.0
Kintetsu Buffaloes 13143871.33139.0

Postseason

Japan Series

CL Taiyo Whales (4) vs. PL Daimai Orions (0)

GameDateScoreLocationTimeAttendance 
1October 11Daimai Orions – 0, Taiyo Whales – 1 Kawasaki Stadium 2:1218,354 [1]  
2October 12Daimai Orions – 2, Taiyo Whales – 3Kawasaki Stadium2:2918,421 [1]  
3October 14Taiyo Whales – 6, Daimai Orions – 5 Korakuen Stadium 2:3831,586 [1]  
4October 15Taiyo Whales – 1, Daimai Orions – 0Korakuen Stadium2:4432,409 [1]

League leaders

Central League

Pacific League

Awards

Nippon Professional Baseball Most Valuable Player Award

The Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award is an honor given annually in baseball to two outstanding players in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), one each for the Central League and Pacific League.

Noboru Akiyama was a Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher, originally from Okayama, Okayama. He played with the Taiyo Whales. He is a member of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.

Kazuhiro Yamauchi Japanese baseball player

Kazuhiro Yamauchi was a Japanese baseball player and manager. He played for the Mainichi Orions, the Hanshin Tigers and the Hiroshima Toyo Carp over the span of an 18 season-long career (1952–1970).

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 1960年度日本シリーズ 試合結果 (in Japanese). Nippon Professional Baseball . Retrieved April 27, 2010.
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