Tokyo Yakult Swallows

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Tokyo Yakult Swallows
東京ヤクルトスワローズ
Team logo Cap insignia
Information
League	Nippon Professional Baseball Central League (1950–present)
Location	Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Ballpark	Meiji Jingu Stadium
Founded	January 12, 1950; 74 years ago (1950-01-12)[1]
Nickname(s)	Tsubame (つばめ, swallow)
CL pennants	9 (1978, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2015, 2021, 2022)
Japan Series championships	6 (1978, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2021)
Former name(s)	Yakult Swallows (1974–2005) Yakult Atoms (1970–1973) Atoms (1969) Sankei Atoms (1966–1968) Sankei Swallows (1965) Kokutetsu Swallows (1950–1965)
Former ballparks	Korakuen Stadium (1950–1963)
Colors	Navy, Red, Green
Mascot	Tsubakuro, Tsubami, and Torkuya
Playoff berths	7 (2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2018, 2021, 2022)
Ownership	Takashige Negishi
Management	Yakult Honsha
Manager	Shingo Takatsu
Uniforms

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.

The Swallows are named after their corporate owners, Yakult Honsha. From 1950 to 1965, the team was owned by the former Japanese National Railways (known as Kokutetsu (国鉄) in Japanese) and called the Kokutetsu Swallows; the team was then owned by the newspaper Sankei Shimbun from 1965 to 1968 and called the Sankei Atoms. Yakult purchased the team in 1970 and renamed it the Yakult Atoms, before renaming it again as the Yakult Swallows in 1974, and then the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in 2006.