The 1985 Tigers and Giants

Today's Daily Sports printed the lineup for the first Tigers/Giants match in 1985. Just for fun here are the old lineups

Tigers                                Giants
1. Mayumi (Right)               Matsumoto (Left)
2. Hirota (Centre)              Shinozuka (Second)
3. Bass (First)                 Cromartie (Centre)
4. Kakefu (Third)               Hara (Third)
5. Okada (Second)               Nakahata (First)
6. Sano (Left)                  Yoshimura (Right)
7. Hirata (Short)               Kono (Short)
8. Kido (Catcher)               Sano (Catcher)
9. Kudoh (Pitcher)              Makihara (Pitcher)

[Edited by: Christopher on Apr 7, 2010 7:44 AM]

This brings out good memories. I used to go to Korakuen back in the days and watch the Tigers and Giants play. The way the stand was built is very similar to todays Tokyo Dome. Bleacher tickets for children at the time was 200 yen. Korakuen was always completely packed. Tigers had an amazing line up in 1985 with 4 batters hitting 300 and plus 30 home runs. My favorite player then was Mayumi and Bass. Mayumi was a great lead off batter who had recently converted from short stop. I never liked Hara from his playing days and I do not think he was such a great player but have to admit he has been doing a pretty good job as manager. Both Cromarty and Nakahata were energetic players fun to watch. While Shinozuka was an amazing 2nd bass man on the same level as Chunichi´s Araki with a very good bat. Hanshin that year was unstoppable. I remember one game that year Hanshin beat Hiroshima 11-7 being down 7-0 at one point. Makihara was also the pitcher who gave up 3 home runs in a row to Bass, Kakefu, Okada to the back screen. Hanshin´s line up was called the Dynamite Dasen/ line up. Would be entertaining to see a line up for any team with this kind of caliber.

I know it's in katakana, but it's Cromartie.

Thanks for that - entry corrected

I was at Koshien last night and good show of power from the current Tigers as well. Despite being the 4 and 5 batters, Kanemoto and Arai were two of the last players I expected to hit homers last night--Kanemoto because he should be on the DL and Arai because, well he's Arai. In any case, nice gutsy win last night to help erase the terrible Chunichi series. Good to see Nohmi be able to get the win after Hirano literally threw it away.