Hanshin won its first Japan Series title since 1985 — the year their fans celebrated by throwing a statue of Colonel Sanders in a canal.
The endured the Curse of the Bambino for more than 80 years before winning the World Series in 2004. The finally shook the Curse of the Billy Goat after 71 seasons when they won it all in 2016. Now what might be baseball’s last great curse has been broken. The Hanshin Tigers defeated the Orix Buffaloes 7-1 in a decisive Game 7 Sunday night at Osaka’s Kyocera Dome to win their first Japan Series title in 38 years.
Their relationship with Bass came to sad end in 1988 when he returned to the United States after his son was diagnosed with a brain tumor and Hanshin terminated his contract as a result. The when Tigers GM Shingo Furuya, apparently distraught over the team’s failures and the loss of his best player, jumped from the eighth floor of a hotel to his death. “There can be some odd things in Japanese baseball politics at times — who wins and who’s supposed to win,” Gale said.
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