Hiroshima Toyo Carp
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The Hiroshima Toyo Carp are a professional baseball team based in Hiroshima, Japan. They compete in the Central League of Nippon Professional Baseball, playing their homes games at Mazda Zoom-Zoom Sta
A memorial plaque listing the team's Central League championships located next to old Hiroshima Municipal Stadium.
View from Hiroshima Municipal Stadium on March 14, 2004.
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Alfonso Soriano
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Alfonso Guilleard Soriano is a Dominican-American former professional baseball left fielder and second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees, Texas Rangers, Washington N
Hiroshima Toyo Carp
…to Japan from the academy in 1995. Checo achieved moderate success in Japan, leading to further imports which include later-MLB players Timo Pérez and Alfonso Soriano. In 2004, the Carp started a pitching academy in Guangdong, China, in an attempt "to expand the range of baseball in Asia…
Soriano with the New York Yankees in 2013
Soriano with the Washington Nationals in 2006
Alfonso Soriano joins the 40–40 club by stealing his 40th base against the Milwaukee Brewers at RFK Stadium, September 16, 2006.
Alfonso Soriano batting for the Nationals in 2006