Nagoya Kinko (long name: Nagoya Kinnosachihiko) was a

Japanese baseball Baseball was introduced to Japan in 1859 and is Japan's most popular participatory and spectator sport. The first professional competitions emerged in the 1920s. The highest level of baseball in Japan is Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), whic ...

team that played in the

Japanese Baseball League The was a professional baseball league in Japan which operated from 1936 to 1949, before reorganizing in 1950 as Nippon Professional Baseball. The league's dominant team was Tokyo Kyojin (renamed the Yomiuri Giants in 1947), which won nine le ...

(JBL) before it merged with another team. It was owned by the daily broadsheet '' Nagoya Shimbun''. Notable players for the team over the course of its existence included Harris McGalliard,

Herb North __NOTOC__ Herbert Kuulei North (January 2, 1908 – April 6, 1964), nicknamed Buster, was an American baseball pitcher who played with the Nagoya Kinko, Nagoya Golden Dolphins in the Japanese Baseball League's inaugural 1936 season. He earned the ...

, and Toshio Kurosawa. The club was founded as the Nagoya Golden Dolphins before the 1936 JBL season. In 1937 the team changed its name to Nagoya Kinko. The franchise never had a winning record and never placed higher than fourth in the league standings. Few players wanted to play for the team,and it merged with the Tsubasa Baseball Club after the 1940 season to form the Taiyō Baseball Club (that franchise was itself dissolved following the 1943 JBL season).

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