Club team (amateur baseball)

It becomes "the team which is not a company registration team among teams enrolling in the Japan Baseball League" (including the thing which a public body joined the team which the corporations such as companies joined it and registered) when I define it as the club team in the amateur baseball negatively (Japan Baseball League registration rule Article 3). The clear definition is not put in the rules, but it will be in "a hardball baseball team run by the volunteer who gathered not a thing to perform as part of the activity of the company voluntarily" if I define it positively.

Actual situation of the club team

There is not the thing that so-called "amateur baseball" and the distinction of the club team are close, but the things which can draw a sharp line between both include a point of [¹] that can participate in the qualifier of so-called's three biggest meetings surely because it becomes the premise that the game that the club team performs is hardball baseball using the hard ball, that the club team belongs to the Japan Baseball League again.

However, there is no the root-like difference in amateur baseball and club team in the meaning that the people of the so-called baseball enthusiast gather spontaneously and form a team, and there is not it, and, as for what players of the club team having a main occupation particularly in comparison with a company registration team again gather and can practice, a common point is seen even in a point that trouble to be engaged earnestly in the security of the exercise ground at exercise time does not die out only on a holiday on the weekend.

History of the club team

The sudden rise period of the club team

It may be said that the history of the club team almost follows the same path with a history of the amateur baseball. "Shimbashi Athletics" considered to be a first Japanese baseball team in 1877 was formed. I say, but, in this team, it may be said that most of players of this team were the staffs of the official in charge of building railroad dormitory Shimbashi Railway Bureau-saving because it was not done with the activity of the Shimbashi Railway Bureau official recognition after other person entered as a member even if I had the side of the club team.

When the 20th century began, it was student baseball particularly university baseball that at first took domestic baseball popularity. Led by federation of Tokyo six University baseball, a university baseball league was established by each district, and a popular player came to enliven the space of the newspaper. However, the university has an attendance at school period, and any star player leaves the team in 4 years. Club team was formed as the saucer by each district, and it was isolated, and play between the performed club team gathered the fans from the student baseball era.

However, activity was not known nationwide even if a periodical war between the club team such as the Waseda-Keio game is not carried out, and a lot of people who stop baseball when the star player of the student baseball world graduates from a university are, so to speak, the people who advanced to the club team.

I graduated from a university, and Makoto Hashido who was the Waseda University baseball club second charges captain became a reporter of Mainichi Shimbun ("Tokyo date newspaper"), but, by United States expedition for Waseda University Era, paid attention to the franchise system of the measure league. And I pressured the company to work on national convention holding of the baseball to let the teams which represented each city fight, and this was recognized. This meeting is an Intercity Baseball Tournament meet. There was a company team in each Railway Bureau of the Ministry of Railways for as entertainment of the employees and morale, love company mind improvement of the employee then, but, in the team except the student baseball, club team was most of in those days. Hashido took approximately one year and walked around the whole country and persuaded the person concerned of the conspicuous active club team and the staff of the Railway Bureau and held the first all-Japan Intercity Baseball Tournament meeting in (1927) in 1927. The MVP of Intercity Baseball Tournament is full of an achievement of this Hashido and is commended as "Hashido prize".

This meeting of Hashido was accepted with a big reaction as expected. It became the meeting that baseball fans of the whole country paid attention to saying that the stars of the university baseball era gathered in Jingu Stadium again and showed a play. Actually, the national broadcast with the NHK radio was carried out from the fourth meeting, and the royalty watched a game of the semifinals in the ninth meeting in a royal box and was accepted as "the star meeting of labor sports". The tendency that settled in entering the club team is seen in club team still surpassing a company team in this time when a railroad, coal, the iron manufacture industry was the only a company team than the excellent player of the university baseball, so to speak, enters the company team of "the semiprofessional" at the time when professional baseball was still looked down upon as "pro-ball" every day. For example, all Osaka that won the eighth all-Japan Intercity Baseball Tournament meet led Osamu Mihara (from Waseda University のち professional baseball supervision), Naotaka Makino (Keio University native place, federation of のち National High School Baseball Championship's chairperson) who were a star player of the Tokyo six University.

Reduction, the slump period of the club team

When an Intercity Baseball Tournament meet adds to embossment, and the design of the meeting comes to be greatly informed it in Mainichi Shimbun of the sponsorship, the company establishes the team in the office as one of the office harmony and the uplift of the love Corporation mind and the advertising mediums and comes to participate in the qualifier of the Intercity Baseball Tournament meeting. Moji City, Moji Railway Bureau has a black lion flag (pennant of the Intercity Baseball Tournament meet) in its hand in the tenth Intercity Baseball Tournament meet of 1936 for the first time as a company team (by the way, after the tenth meeting, the Intercity Baseball Tournament meet conquest of the club team is not accomplished).

There was the trend that the careerist should accomplish in own natural gifts while the times were dyed a wartime color and, for example, participated in all these the past 11 times of meetings ahead of the twelfth Intercity Baseball Tournament meeting (1938), and the Tokyo club which hit it, and had the results of championship of four times was dissolved voluntarily. Meanwhile, the company team did activity from a way of thinking that the morale uplift of the employee led to fighting spirit exaltation lively more.

War is over, and an Intercity Baseball Tournament meet performs revival (the 17th meeting) in 1946, but, as for the club team, participation eight of 16 teams and the former force disappear. And association of amateur baseball in Japan (the existing Japan Baseball League) started in 1949 and came to perform the administration that a company team and club team distinguished clearly when I came to gather up the amateur baseball world that there was not of the umbrella organization so far, and the club team which was pure in the qualifiers of the Intercity Baseball Tournament meeting became unable to readily exceed a qualifier.

When professional baseball popularity plays a key role of the baseball popularity of Japan to rapid economic growth, the popularity of the amateur baseball to prop it up increases, and I stand in the office, and the company gives baseball club to compete. According to Japan Baseball League participation team change table [²], 237 teams equal to three-fourths become the company registration team really among member 313 teams in 1963. The club team was in state that I was not able even even to win by a pennant race so that I was overwhelmed by this far from coming to the high rank in meetings.

The national-scale meeting that club team could participate in was only an Intercity Baseball Tournament meet, but I planned interchange between the club team and received the voice for the place of the ability improvement as the club team again, and the first meeting of the all-Japan club baseball championship to continue to date in 1976 was opened, but, until the 1960s, as for the administration of the amateur baseball, it was still in the company team center.

The revival period of the club team

I receive bubble economic ruin, and a shock runs in the amateur baseball world for 1,994 years when economy was in in a tendency to reduction. KUMAGAI GUMI which was a runner up in 34 times of Intercity Baseball Tournament meet participation, championship two times and the 63rd Intercity Baseball Tournament meet of 1992 announced the dissolution of the baseball club. Rearranging, unification when it had plural teams in the abolished part and equivalence companies of the team where it was not readily gone to for a national convention had been performed, but it gave the amateur baseball world a big blow till then that so-called noble family company team started the rearranging of company sports as part of restructuring by the bubble failure.

Actually, a company team of each place announces suspension of the activities of club, the abolished part from this announcement as if a dam had broken. The company team where there were 148 teams in (1993) in 1993 cut 100 teams at last in (2002) in 2002 and decreased in 98 teams. I come to appeal for organization of the new club team and participation in existing club team positively till then while I can no longer anticipate the dramatic increase of the company team whether the Japan Baseball League which ran meetings at the company team center had a sense of impending crisis [³]. In addition, the all-Japan club championship that I held all the time in the Kanto district came to carry out holding till then in the every second year with the Kanto district and other district.

I was concerned about Nippon Steel Sakai where Hideo Nomo who was an amateur baseball native place was own native place team was staying away in major leaguers in inside, 2003 and the whole amateur baseball world waking up subsidence and worked out most of the administration funds and I stood and gave club team ("NOMO base ball club") to Sakai-shi, Osaka. In addition, an entertainer, the celebrity of a former professional baseball player and the baseball lover became an investor, a general manager, supervision, the player in each place, and organization of the club team occurred successively when I announced that I stood, and Kinnichi Hagimoto of the comedian gave "Ibaraki golden goal" to Sakuragawa-m ura, Ibaraki (existing Inashiki-shi) in the off-season in 2004. As a result, the club team out of Japan Baseball League participation 358 teams increased in approximately 77% of 275 teams in (2006) in 2006.

I receive a sharp increase of the club team and am going to increase the opportunities when a setup, club team as many as possible can participate in a big meeting in the National club baseball series that is a new meeting of the club team in 2006 because it became difficult that the Japan Baseball League participates in an all-Japan club baseball championship.

In addition, I increased, and merely club team did not become only the quantity, and Iwate 21 red べこ baseball army corps in the activity second year carried out first appearance in the 78th Intercity Baseball Tournament meeting in 2007 each, and Yamatotakada club conquered consecutively by the 36th amateur baseball Japan championship in 2009 by a company team, and NOMO Baseball Club in the substance activity second year accomplished entering last eight in the 76th Intercity Baseball Tournament meeting in 2005. There is the thing that the improvement of the club team world is remarkable.

In this way, it is club team ignored from the front stage of the amateur baseball world once, but club team is combined with local development recently, and it may be said that I carry a bird of the amateur baseball development.

Problems over the current club team

In late years a tendency to rapid increase includes the club team like statement above, but the qualifier of the Intercity Baseball Tournament meet that is the amateur baseball world's greatest meeting is performed weekdays, and there is indication with (or I treat a company team well) lacking consideration to club team.

But a sponsor accompanied at the time of a team setup leaves the reason that the result that it costs an expense for unexpectedly does not appear and a former professional baseball player and a celebrity linking the name as a general manager, supervision of the teams are only simple "name lending" and, actually, do not turn up even in the baseball stadium, and club team comes from the essence, and, as for club team having increased rapidly with about 2004, there is indication that it is used for "the publicity stunts" of a former professional baseball player and the celebrity again used as an advertising medium of the sponsor company according to the statement above.

Type of the club team

We are a great variety of, and it is approximately impossible to classify from the viewpoint of one, but let's be as follows even if we say club team to a mouthful when we classify it from different angles. Naturally there is the club team classified in plural types.

Local coherence, club type

It is, so to speak, a style to be able to tell to be the origin of the club team. It may be said that oldest Hakodate Taiyo club or all Urawa baseball corps that won 樽協, all Ashikaga clubs of all-Japan club baseball championship ten times championship, university society consecutively 3 from the first (club having the second history in a way) are representative in active club team now.

Team administration NPO type

The style that I establish a non profit organization running a team, and the corporation runs a team. The first Japanese NPO corporation administration team wins a club baseball championship from the team establishment in Sapporo Hornets (NPO corporation "Hokkaido base ball club" runs it) in three years (2003). In addition, NOMO Baseball Club and Ibaraki golden goal adopt this style, too. Because the good point of this style has the administration mother with the juridical person, it is easy to perform a sponsor and fan club administration, and there is it in the place that is easy to perform the management of the team expense. In late years most of established club team adopt this style.

Celebrity setup type

The style that a former professional baseball player and entertainers fit into the position that a setup, a general manager supervise a team. For a good point, there is the point where promising talented people are easy to gather with the name in a selection to perform at the time of a team setup. Examples include Ibaraki golden goal, a blouse reed forest.

Wide area conglomerate team

The wide area conglomerate team was shown with "a club team image of the 21st century" proposed in Japan Baseball League commuter pass caput of 2003. Plural companies share the employment of the player, and receive the wage from the company, but using the uniform which is the same for a team (call the place that can attach the emblem indicating the employer to the sleeve, and calls the last educational background after a player name by the pennant race again if normal, position company). I am active as one form of the team administration coherent to the area as a company registration team. (because I am handled as company registration, the club championship participation is not possible)

I was expected as a thing widening activity of the new club team, but it is registered as a wide area conglomerate team, and it is only citizen baseball team Kazusa magic (Kimitsu-s hi, Chiba), hardball baseball club Tokai REX (Tokai-sh i, Aichi), three teams of フェズント Iwate (Morioka-s hi, Iwate) that was active, and a person of former 2 was all the switch from the Nippon Steel company team, or the acquisition of the influential rookie has become difficult, and revival (it is a sponsor name, and the wide area conglomerate team registration continues), フェズント Iwate are in that position company is different, and a joint exercise is difficult, and a company name is dissolved with a start of Nippon Steel Sumikin again in 2015 in the middle of 2012 because a company name came.

Change of dress type from the company team

After a company team did an abolished part on a holiday, I stand, and a volunteer gives club team and although a company does not do full-scale support, I reduce width of the support and plan grant of accommodation and am (I agree virtually with a club). The registration top is club team, but a club has ability equal to the company team after becoming it for a while. Representative teams include NSB baseball club (old Nakayama Steel Works hardball baseball department), Shinetsu hardball baseball club (old NTT Shinetsu hardball baseball club), Mitsubishi Motors Kurashiki oceans. In addition, it was said that I could not participate in an all-Japan club baseball championship even if the team where the player who belonged to the same company registered a contestant with more than ten people registered a club, but the participation in club championship from 2010 was enabled regardless of a registration player by the review of the meetings administration policy of the Japan Baseball League (I can choose the participation to the meeting targeted for a championship in Japan and championship last qualifier in Japan).

Crown sponsor type

It is club team for the actual situation, but depends on the support of the specific company for the budget. On the other hand, I name it and take a part of the public information of the company on a team name by a company name. In late years teams naming a company name gradually increase because the expectations with the team which wants to plan the securing of budget agree with the company which wants to evade expenditure until company team administration. Edion Aichi Institute of Technology alumnus BLITZ、Total Hanshin、Arc barrier dream clubなど.

Club team and professional baseball

The club team rarely stands in the front stage of the national convention except an all-Japan club baseball championship, but I show activity as an Intercity Baseball Tournament meet athlete reinforcement, and the player becoming a professional via the case that catches eye of the talent scout of NPB, and is nominated draft for and a joining an organization test is seen. In addition, I show a company team partner activity in club team, and there is the case that it is appointed draft after having transferred to the company team (Hitoshi Fujie (NOMO Baseball Club → Toho Gas → Yokohama DeNA BayStars), Shinya Kayama (big development baseball club → JX-ENEOS → Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks)). Because there having become much change of dress to the club team of the company team, an upbringing player system were introduced when the 21st century begins, it becomes often nominated draft club team position player.

Having joined the NPB team in club team position players after a draft meeting start the following players (the position team, last place genus is limited to the person who was club team at the time of joining an organization).

Masaji Ishizuka (1970 Yakult atoms draft outside, Tokyo Dragons)
Koichi Mori (1977 ocean Whales draft outside, all Hokuto)
Takayuki Suzuki (the 1981 Seibu Lions draft outside, northeastern club)
Fumihiko Sato (the 1983 LOTTE Orion's draft outside, Ishinomaki weather club)
小倉恒（1992年ヤクルト7位；全足利クラブ）
丹波幹雄（1998年ヤクルト8位；WIEN BASEBALL CLUB）
本間忠（1999年ヤクルト6位；野田サンダーズ）
竹下慎太郎（2000年横浜ベイスターズ8位；大分硬式野球倶楽部）
橋本泰由（2001年オリックス・ブルーウェーブ15巡；箕島球友会）
鶴岡慎也（2002年日本ハムファイターズ8巡；三菱重工横浜硬式野球クラブ）※チームは2008年から企業登録に変更
三瀬幸司（2003年福岡ダイエーホークス7巡；NTT西日本中国野球クラブ）
竹岡和宏（2003年ダイエー8巡；元中山硬式野球クラブ）
中村渉（2004年日本ハム7巡；三菱製紙八戸クラブ）
石井裕也（2004年中日ドラゴンズ6位；三菱重工横浜硬式野球クラブ）※チームは2008年から企業登録に変更
柳田殖生（2005年中日大学生・社会人ほか5巡；NOMOベースボールクラブ）
岩崎哲也（2006年西武大学生・社会人ほか5巡；三菱重工横浜硬式野球クラブ）※チームは2008年から企業登録に変更
金森久朋（2006年東北楽天ゴールデンイーグルス育成1巡；西多摩倶楽部）
岡田幸文（2008年ロッテ育成6位；全足利クラブ)
石田淳也（2010年ロッテ育成3位；NOMOベースボールクラブ）
川口隼人（2010年楽天育成3位；滋賀・高島ベースボールクラブ）
財前貴男（2010年読売ジャイアンツ育成5位；エイデン愛工大OB BLITZ）
川口寛人（2010年巨人育成7位；西多摩倶楽部）
笹沼明広（2011年ソフトバンク育成6位；全足利クラブ）
神保貴宏（2011年楽天育成1位；トランシス）
田原誠次（2011年巨人7位；三菱自動車倉敷オーシャンズ）※チームは2016年から企業登録に変更
森唯斗（2013年ソフトバンク2位；三菱自動車倉敷オーシャンズ）※チームは2016年から企業登録に変更
萬谷康平（2013年横浜DeNA育成2位；ミキハウスREDS）
河野大樹（2014年ソフトバンク育成7位；NOMOベースボールクラブ）
瀬川隼郎（2014年北海道日本ハム5位；室蘭シャークス）

脚注

^ かつては都道府県連盟によっては社会人野球日本選手権大会予選にクラブチームの参加を認めていないところもあったが、2006年以降日本選手権にクラブ選手権優勝枠が設けられたことから、シーズン開始前にどちらの予選に出場するかを選択する形となった
^ [1]
^ 日本野球連盟のトップページには「クラブチームに入ろう」というコンテンツへのリンクが張られている。

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