 Members of nine NPB teams were implicated, with seven players coming from the Nishitetsu Lions alone.Ten NPB current and former players — including star pitchers Masaaki Ikenaga, Kentarō Ogawa, and Tsutomu Tanaka — were banned from the game for life.On October 7, 1969, the Lions front office discovered pitcher Masayuki Nagayasu taking bribes from a "yakuza" clan to throw games.