[For Seniors] Baseball Trivia Quiz & Fun Facts. Nostalgic and Engaging Multiple-Choice Questions

Yomiuri Giants

Hideki Matsui was selected first overall by the Yomiuri Giants—often abbreviated as the Giants—in the 1992 draft and joined the team. For many years he excelled as the Giants’ cleanup hitter, hitting numerous home runs. For Japanese baseball fans, the powerful swing of the Giants’ number 55 is surely still vividly remembered.

umpire

In baseball, officials are called “umpires.” In many sports such as soccer and boxing, they are often called “referees,” but in sports like baseball and tennis, the term “umpire” is used. Its etymology is said to come from Old French, meaning an impartial person or a third party.

Kyocera Dome Osaka

The Orix Buffaloes’ home stadium is Kyocera Dome Osaka, located in Nishi Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. It opened in 1997 as Osaka Dome, and has been called its current name since 2006 through naming rights.

Because the owner at the time was born in the Year of the Dragon

The "Dragons" in the Chunichi Dragons’ name originates from the fact that when the team changed its name in 1947, the then-owner, Toranosuke Sugiyama, had been born in the Year of the Dragon.

Hanshin Tigers

The names of the baseball club members at Futagotamagawa Gakuen High School—including the hot-blooded teacher and protagonist Koichi Kawato from the popular baseball manga ROOKIES, as well as Aniya, Shinjo, Mikoshiba, Hiyama, and Imaoka—are all derived from real players who were on the Hanshin Tigers. This naming choice was made because the original author, Masanori Morita, is a huge Hanshin fan.

Yasushi Tao

The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles are a professional baseball team that joined the Pacific League as a new entrant in 2005 following the professional baseball realignment issue. The team’s inaugural manager was Yasushi Tawo.

Masashi Matsumoto

The player affectionately known as the “Blue Lightning” was Masashi Matsumoto, who excelled as the Giants’ leadoff man. Wearing his trademark blue gloves, he captivated many fans with his style of boldly attempting steals whenever he reached base.