1953 Nippon Professional Baseball season
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This article is about the 1953 Nippon Professional Baseball season only. For information on all of baseball, see 1953 in baseball.
The 1953 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the fourth season of operation of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
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1953 NPB season | |
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League | Nippon Professional Baseball |
Sport | Baseball |
Central League Pennant | |
League champions | Yomiuri Giants |
Runners-up | Osaka Tigers |
Season MVP | Takumi Otomo (YOM) |
Pacific League Pennant | |
League champions | Nankai Hawks |
Runners-up | Hankyu Braves |
Season MVP | Isami Okamoto (NAN) |
Japan Series | |
Champions | Yomiuri Giants |
Runners-up | Nankai Hawks |
Finals MVP | Tetsuharu Kawakami (YOM) |
NPB seasons | |
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That season would be the first to be televised on the young NHK General TV - which opened that year. The young channel and its then few national relay stations aired some games during the year, tying baseball to the young TV industry and thus beginning the sports connection to Japanese television, as well as its transformation into the top sport of the nation.