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Baseball: Warren Cromartie

YOKOHAMA, Japan, Aug. 21 Kyodo - Warren Cromartie of the Yomiuri Giants blows bubble gum on third base during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Yokohama Taiyo Whales on May 13, 1985, at Yokohama Stadium in Yokohama, near Tokyo.(Kyodo)

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Nakahata, Ono, Takagi named coaches for 2004 Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - Former Hiroshima Carp hurler Yutaka Ono (L), former Yomiuri Giants player Kiyoshi Nakahata (2nd from R) and former Yokohama Taiyo Whales player Yutaka Takagi (R) pose with Shigeo Nagashima (2nd from L), manager of Japan's national baseball team for the Athens Olympics, in Tokyo on July 8 after being named coaches for the team.

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Yokohama left-hander Nomura retires

YOKOHANA, Japan - Yokohama BayStars left-hander Hiroki Nomura tells a news conference Sept. 19 that he will retire at the end of the season after struggling with a lingering elbow injury for four years. Nomura, 33, joined the Taiyo Whales, Yokohama's predecessor, from PL Gakuen high school in 1988 as a third-round draft pick. He led the Central League with 17 wins in 1993 and helped Yokohama win the league title in 1998 with 13 wins.

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2002 IWC meeting to be held in Shimonoseki

ADELAIDE, Australia - Kiyoshi Ejima, mayor of Shimonoseki City in Japan's Yamaguchi Prefecture, meets the press in Adelaide, Australia, on July 6 after the International Whaling Commission (IWC) decided to hold the 54th annual meeting in Shimonoseki in 2002. Shimonoseki, located at the western tip of Japan's largest island, Honshu, was a base for Japan's whaling industry until the 1980s. The fisheries company which owned the professional baseball club the Taiyo Whales, the predecessor of the Yokohama BayStars, was based in the city until 1949.

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Yokohama wins Japan Series crown

Yokohama BayStars manager Hiroshi Gondo is tossed into the air after the team won the Japan Series championship Monday Oct. 26 at Yokohama Stadium. Yokohama, claiming the championship in six games, won its first title in 38 years and only the second in franchise history after the Taiyo Whales swept the Daimai Orions for the crown in 1960.

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Former big league closer Saito to retire

File photo taken in 1991 shows Takashi Saito (R in front) posing for photos with other rookie players of the then Taiyo Whales as they are introduced by the Yokohama-based baseball club. Saito said on Aug. 17, 2015, that he will retire at the end of the season aged 45 after a 24-year career, including seven in the major leagues. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yokohama left-hander Nomura retires

YOKOHANA, Japan - Yokohama BayStars left-hander Hiroki Nomura tells a news conference Sept. 19 that he will retire at the end of the season after struggling with a lingering elbow injury for four years. Nomura, 33, joined the Taiyo Whales, Yokohama's predecessor, from PL Gakuen high school in 1988 as a third-round draft pick. He led the Central League with 17 wins in 1993 and helped Yokohama win the league title in 1998 with 13 wins. (Kyodo)

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Baseball: "Iron Man" Kinugasa

File photo shows Japanese baseball player Sachio Kinugasa of the Hiroshima Carp taking a full swing during a game against the Taiyo Whales, the predecessor of today's DeNA BayStars, in Hiroshima in May 1985. Hall of Famer Kinugasa died of colon cancer on April 23, 2018, at age 71. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Former Whales pitcher Hiramatsu inducted into Hall of Fame

File photo taken in 1977 shows Taiyo Whales pitcher Masaji Hiramatsu, who was inducted into Japan's Baseball Hall of Fame on Jan. 16, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nakahata, Ono, Takagi named coaches for 2004 Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - Former Hiroshima Carp hurler Yutaka Ono (L), former Yomiuri Giants player Kiyoshi Nakahata (2nd from R) and former Yokohama Taiyo Whales player Yutaka Takagi (R) pose with Shigeo Nagashima (2nd from L), manager of Japan's national baseball team for the Athens Olympics, in Tokyo on July 8 after being named coaches for the team. (Kyodo)

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2002 IWC meeting to be held in Shimonoseki

ADELAIDE, Australia - Kiyoshi Ejima, mayor of Shimonoseki City in Japan's Yamaguchi Prefecture, meets the press in Adelaide, Australia, on July 6 after the International Whaling Commission (IWC) decided to hold the 54th annual meeting in Shimonoseki in 2002. Shimonoseki, located at the western tip of Japan's largest island, Honshu, was a base for Japan's whaling industry until the 1980s. The fisheries company which owned the professional baseball club the Taiyo Whales, the predecessor of the Yokohama BayStars, was based in the city until 1949.

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Yokohama wins Japan Series crown

Yokohama BayStars manager Hiroshi Gondo is tossed into the air after the team won the Japan Series championship Monday Oct. 26 at Yokohama Stadium. Yokohama, claiming the championship in six games, won its first title in 38 years and only the second in franchise history after the Taiyo Whales swept the Daimai Orions for the crown in 1960.