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Nankai Hawks
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Japan Series Titles: 2 (1959, 1964)
Pacific League Pennants: 10 (1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1959, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1973) - also won the one-league format in 1946 and 1948
Franchise Players: Katsuya Nomura, Mutsuo Minagawa, Hiromitsu Kadota, Chusuke Kizuka, Kohei Sugiyama
The Nankai Hawks (南海ホークス?) were the top team in the first twenty years of the Pacific League, but fell on hard times and finished in the second division every year from 1978 to 1988, at which point the team was sold to the Daiei corporation to become the Daiei Hawks. They begun to rebound after that and re-established themselves as one of the top Pacific League teams in the late 1990s.