Professional Socks
Description: The Tokyo Yakult Swallows (Japanese: 東京ヤクルトスワローズ) are a Japanese professional baseball team competing in Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League. Based in Shinjuku, Tokyo, they are one of two professional baseball teams in Tokyo, the other being the Yomiuri Giants. They have won nine Central League championships and six Japan Series championships. Since 1964, they have played their home games at Meiji Jingu Stadium.
Description: The Orix Buffaloes (オリックス・バファローズ, Orikkusu Bafarōzu) are a Nippon Professional Baseball team formed as a result of the 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball realignment by the merger of the Orix BlueWave of Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, and the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes of Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The team plays in the Pacific League and is under ownership by Orix, a financial services company founded in Osaka.
Description: The Osaka Tigers are one of the oldest professional baseball clubs in Japan, playing their first season in 1936. Their fans are known as perhaps the most fanatical and dedicated in all of Japanese sports -- often outnumbering the home team fans at away games -- and have a reputation for rough behavior and a willingness to brawl with the opposing teams' fans, if not amongst themselves. After their 1985 Japan Series win, fans that resembled Tigers players jumped into the Dōtonbori Canal in celebration, but when no one resembled Caucasian first baseman Randy Bass, a statue of Colonel Sanders was stolen from a KFC and dumped in the river in his place, beginning what became known as "The Curse of the Colonel."
