Hiroshima Toyo Carp
| Hiroshima Toyo Carp | |||||
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| 広島東洋カープ | |||||
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| League | Nippon Professional Baseball
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| Location | Minami-ku, Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan | ||||
| Ballpark | Mazda Zoom-Zoom Stadium Hiroshima | ||||
| Founded | December 5, 1949 | ||||
| Nickname(s) | Koi (鯉, carp) | ||||
| Japan Series championships | 3 (1979, 1980, 1984) | ||||
| CL pennants | 9 (1975, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1986, 1991, 2016, 2017, 2018) | ||||
| Playoff berths | 6 (2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2023) | ||||
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| Colors | Red, White, Navy | ||||
| Mascot | Slyly | ||||
| Retired numbers | 3, 8, 15 | ||||
| Ownership | Hajime Matsuda | ||||
| Management | Matsuda family | ||||
| Manager | Takahiro Arai | ||||
| Website | https://www.carp.co.jp/ | ||||
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The Hiroshima Toyo Carp (広島東洋カープ, Hiroshima Tōyō Kāpu) are a professional baseball team based in Hiroshima, Japan. They compete in the Central League of Nippon Professional Baseball, playing their homes games at Mazda Zoom-Zoom Stadium Hiroshima.
The Carp were founded in 1949; four years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The team struggled to find success in their early years and faced serious financial problems, but narrowly escaped merger and contraction plans through the fundraising of fans and Hiroshima citizens. The team found stability over the next two decades, eventually rising to their first Central League pennant in 1975, and winning the 1979 Japan Series. In appreciation of their emergence alongside the reconstruction of Hiroshima, the Carp are regarded "as a symbol of Hiroshima's recovery".
In modern times, the team has the longest championship drought in the NPB. They have not won the Japan Series since 1984, and are the only remaining NPB team to not win a Japan Series in the 21st century.