Japanese [[baseball]] team, based in Osaka and playing in the Central League of [[Nippon Professional Baseball]]. The team is one of the most popular in Japan along with the rival [[Yomiuri Giants]], and is often compared to the [[Boston Red Sox]] of [[Major League Baseball]] in terms of history and fan support.

Infamously is the subject of the "Curse of the Colonel", where Tigers supporters throwing a statue of [[Colonel Sanders]] into a river after the team's 1985 Japan Series victory has been attributed to a two-decade long drought of the Tigers not winning the Central League championship and their almost-40-year Japan Series drought. The curse was seen as broken following the Tigers' victory in the 2023 Japan Series.

h4. See also

* [[To Lucky]]

h4. External links

* "Wikipedia article":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanshin_Tigers
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