In the Japanese baseball league, why are the letters in english?
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this is so american baseball scouts can identify themI am not sure but I found this on wiki...
Unlike American pro teams, Japanese professional baseball teams are usually named after their corporate owners/sponsors rather than the cities or regions in which they play. This is because franchising does not have strong territorial requirements as in the Major Leagues; the teams used to locate in clustered metropolitan areas in Japan's center (Tokyo, Nagoya) and south (Osaka, Fukuoka) areas. Current trend is to include the place names as well as owners/sponsors in an attempt to gain support from the francised communities. Mass media still tend to choose the sponsor names in abbreviations.
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Yomiuri Giants name and uniforms were based on the New York (now San Francisco) Giants. The teams colors (orange and black) are the same colors worn by the National League's Giants, both in New York and San Francisco. The stylized lettering on the team's jerseys and caps is similar to the fancy lettering used by the Giants when they played in New York in the 1930s, although during the 1970s the Giants modernized their lettering to follow the style worn by the American Giants.
So my guess is that they have team names in English (or Romanji) script because they were that way back and the 30's and just kept it... so tradition.
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