Yomiuri Giants

The Yomiuri Giants (in Japanese: 読売ジャイアンツ; Yomiuri-Jaiantsu or Ky?jin) is one of the most popular baseball teams based in Japan. It is based at Tokyo Dome, in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan, and is in the Central League. The team is owned by the Yomiuri Group, a media conglomerate which includes two newspapers and a television network.

Players of note

Former players

• Reggie Smith
• Warren Cromartie
• Suguru Egawa
• Tatsunori Hara
• Isao Harimoto
• Tatsuro Hirooka
• Tsuneo Horiuchi
• Gabe Kapler
• Tetsuharu Kawakami
• Norihiro Komada
• Hiromi Makihara
• Hideki Matsui
• Shigeo Nagashima
• Kiyoshi Nakahata
• Hiromitsu Ochiai
• Sadaharu Oh
• Robert Petagine
• Masaki Saito
• Eiji Sawamura http://www.baseball-museum.or.jp/museum_e/guide/dendo/profile/008_sawamura_eiji_e.html, http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/mlb_news.jsp?ymd=20021106&content_id=171904&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp
• Kazunori Shinozuka
• Victor Starffin http://www.starffin.com/
• Wally Kaname Yonamine

Retired numbers

• 1 Sadaharu Oh
• 3 Shigeo Nagashima
• 4 Toshio Kurosawa
• 14 Eiji Sawamura
• 16 Tetsuharu Kawakami
• 34 Masaichi Kaneda