Nagoya Kinko
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Nagoya Kinko (long name: Nagoya Kinnosachihiko)[citation needed] was a Japanese baseball team that played in the Japanese Baseball League (JBL) before it merged with another team. It was owned by the daily broadsheet Nagoya Shimbun.[citation needed] Notable players for the team over the course of its existence included Harris McGalliard and Toshio Kurosawa.
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League | Japanese Baseball League |
Established | 1936 |
Folded | 1940; merged with Tsubasa Baseball Club |
Former name(s) | Nagoya Golden Dolphins (1936) |
Ownership | Nagoya Shimbun |
Manager | Genzaburo Okada (1936–1940) |
The club was founded as the Nagoya Golden Dolphins before the 1936 JBL season. In 1937 the team changed its name to Nagoya Kinko.
The franchise never had a winning record and never placed higher than fourth in the league standings. Few players wanted to play for the team,[citation needed]and it merged with the Tsubasa Baseball Club after the 1940 season to form the Taiyō Baseball Club (that franchise was itself dissolved following the 1943 JBL season).