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 of Japan, it is often referred to as "Japanese baseball".
Kazuo Matsui is a Japanese former professional baseball player who played as a shortstop and is the current manager of the Saitama Seibu Lions. He is a switch-hitter.
Hideki Matsui, nicknamed "Godzilla", is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder and designated hitter who played baseball in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and Major League Baseball (MLB). He batted left-handed and threw right-handed.
The Saitama Seibu Lions are a professional baseball team in Japan's Pacific League based north of Tokyo in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture. Before 1979, they were based in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture in Kyushu. The team is owned by a subsidiary of Seibu Railway, which in turn is owned by the Seibu Holdings. The team experienced a recent period of financial difficulty, but the situation brightened when the team received a record ¥6 billion posting fee from the Boston Red Sox for the right to negotiate a contract with Daisuke Matsuzaka. Between 1978 and 2008, the team logo and mascot were based on the adult version of Kimba the White Lion, a classic Japanese anime and manga series by Osamu Tezuka. In 2004, former Seibu Lions player Kazuo Matsui became the first Japanese infielder to play in Major League Baseball.
Daisuke Matsui is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for YSCC Yokohama. He previously played for the Japan national team. His wife is Japanese actress Rosa Kato.
Geoffrey Michael Petrie is an American former professional basketball player. A native of Pennsylvania, he played professional basketball in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Portland Trail Blazers where he won NBA Rookie of the Year in 1971. After retirement as a player he entered management, and was the President of Basketball Operations for the Sacramento Kings in the NBA until June 2013.
Osamu Higashio is a former Japanese baseball player who played in the Japanese professional leagues from 1969–1988, being remembered as one of the leading Japanese pitchers in the 1980s. He also was manager of the Seibu Lions from 1995 to 2001.
Matsui is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Montrose Christian School was a private Christian school in North Bethesda, Maryland, with a Rockville postal address. It was formerly operated by the Montrose Baptist Church, Maryland's second largest Southern Baptist church. It educated around 370 students before its closure in 2013. Its first Senior High School class graduated in 1986.
Hatsuhiko Tsuji is a former Nippon Professional Baseball player and manager. During his playing career he was well known as a skillful second baseman.
Ginjiro Sumitani is a Japanese professional baseball player for the Saitama Seibu Lions of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He previously played in NPB for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles and Yomiuri Giants.
Seahorses Mikawa is a Japanese professional basketball team located in Kariya and sponsored by Aisin. The team was founded in 1947. The team played in the National Basketball League. The current head coach is Ryan Richman. In July 2015 it was announced that the team will compete in the first division of the new Japan Professional Basketball League, which commenced in October 2016.
Theodore Kiendl, Jr. was an American college basketball player at Columbia University in the early 1900s. He played in the era before national player awards or national championships existed, but the Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively named him a three-time All-American. In 1944, the Foundation also retroactively named him its College Basketball Player of the Year for the 1910–11 season, and in February 1943 it retroactively named his Columbia team the national champions for the 1909–10 season. In Kiendl's four seasons the Lions compiled 42 wins and 16 losses. He was a team captain in his final three seasons and was also a three-time All-Eastern Interscholastic League selection. Kiendl played the forward position and weighed 215 pounds (98 kg) by the time he was a senior in 1910–11. He also played on the school's baseball team and served as a captain for three years.
Toshihide Matsui is a professional Japanese tennis player. On 12 June 2006, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of No. 261. He achieved his highest doubles ranking of No. 127 in October 2023. He is currently the oldest active singles player on the ATP world ranking.
Bruce Gehrke was a three sport star Ivy League Hall of Famer, former professional football player for New York Giants in the National Football League (NFL) and a winning coach. He won national championship (NCAA) titles in Baseball, Basketball and Football with Columbia Lions where he was the most valuable and popular player.
John D. Azary was an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for Columbia College from 1948 to 1951.
Yuta Watanabe is a Japanese professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball in the United States for the George Washington Colonials, becoming the first Japanese-born student athlete to secure an NCAA Division I basketball scholarship. He was named Atlantic 10 Defensive Player of the Year in 2018. He has also represented the Japan national team, helping them win the bronze medal at the 2013 East Asia Basketball Championship.
Anthony R. "Red" Matal Jr., sometimes known as Tony Matal, was an American football player and coach. He was an All-American end at Columbia University in 1933. He later coached football at Columbia and at high schools in Taunton, Massachusetts, and Bergen County, New Jersey.
The Columbia Lions women's basketball team is the intercollegiate women's basketball program representing Columbia University. The school competes in the Ivy League in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The Lions play home basketball games at the Levien Gymnasium in New York, New York, on the university campus. Columbia has won one Ivy League championship. The team has been coached by Megan Griffith since 2016.
Leonard "Buck" Jenkins is an American basketball coach and former professional player who is the head coach of the boys varsity team at the Riverwood International Charter School. He played college basketball for the Columbia Lions and is the program's all-time leading scorer.
