Hiroshima Toyo Carp
Japanese professional baseball team
Hiroshima Toyo Carp
The Hiroshima Toyo Carp (広島東洋カープ, Hiroshima Tōyō Kāpu) are a professional baseball team based in Hiroshima, Japan. They compete in the Central League of Nippon Professional Baseball, playing their home games at Mazda Zoom-Zoom Stadium Hiroshima. The Carp were founded in 1949, four years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The team struggled to find success in their early years and faced serious financial issues, but narrowly escaped merger and contraction plans through the fundraising of Hiroshima citizens and fans. The team found stability over the next two decades, eventually rising to their first Central League pennant in 1975, and winning the 1979 Japan Series. In appreciation of their emergence alongside the reconstruction of Hiroshima, the Carp are regarded "as a symbol of Hiroshima's recovery". In modern times, the team has the longest championship drought in the NPB. They have not won the Japan Series since 1984, and are the only NPB team to not win a Japan Series in the 21st...
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