Nagasaki Saints
Encyclopedia
The were a semi-professional baseball
team in the Shikoku-Kyūshū Island League
of Japan
that played out of Nagasaki Prefecture
. The team was established as part of an expansion of the league in 2008. Following the 2010 season, the team announced that it would not be participating in the league's 2011 season.
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
team in the Shikoku-Kyūshū Island League
Shikoku-Kyushu Island League
The is a baseball league on the islands of Shikoku in Japan. Neither the Central nor the Pacific League has a team based in Shikoku.IBLJ Inc. operates the league...
of Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
that played out of Nagasaki Prefecture
Nagasaki Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. The capital is the city of Nagasaki.- History :Nagasaki Prefecture was created by merging of the western half of the former province of Hizen with the island provinces of Tsushima and Iki...
. The team was established as part of an expansion of the league in 2008. Following the 2010 season, the team announced that it would not be participating in the league's 2011 season.