Nippon Professional Baseball
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nippon-professional-baseball-168-992506
title:
Nippon Professional Baseball
text:
Nippon Professional Baseball is a professional baseball league and the highest level of baseball in Japan. Locally, it is often called Puro Yakyū (プロ野球), meaning simply Professional Baseball; outside of Japan, NPB is often 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 1934. The first professional circuit for the sport in Japan, the Japanese Baseball League (JBL), was founded two years later and contin
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Baseball league representing the highest level of professional baseball in Japan
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Professional_Baseball
date created:
2002-11-16T03:26:01Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T17:14:41Z
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13
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