Hanshin Tigers!!!!!!!!!!!!
As well known by WBC(World Baseball Classic), there are many baseball ("yakyu" in Japanese) fans in Japan. We love to watch Major League games because of several Japanese Major Leaguers' great performance. Major League baseball is tremendously dynamic and powerful. Actually many Japanese professional baseball players have a dream to play in Major League.・・・But still we love the Japanese baseball "yakyu".

There is one professional baseball team named "Hanshin Tigers" which located in Kobe-Osaka area. (Well, this name is of course came from "Detroit Tigers". It's a copy! Cute, isn't it?!) This team has been supported by great many fans for many years. The team's lucky colors are yellow and black, the color combination of tiger fur. Fans put something black and yellow on when they go to the games. This team is loved by real fans. But one sad thing was ・・・they couldn't win. Even they win one game, they couldn't win two games in a row. They always ended up with the B class every season , which made their fans very sad and miserable.

Several years ago finally the top people of the team did something to make the team strong, "restructuring"! They were tired of being beaten. The changes started appearing little by little. Their performance was getting better and better. They even won 7 games in a row. The fans went crazy. Then the Hanshin Tigers became the Champion of the Central League in 2003 after 18 years of suffering. I think it is very easy to imagine how happy their fans were with this triumph. Here is a commemorative golden glove for the honor. The golden glove! Isn't this something?