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Back in 1985 the Hanshin Tigers, a Japanese baseball team, won their first Central League championship in 21 years.(The Week)(Brief article)
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Back in 1985 the Hanshin Tigers, a Japanese baseball team, won their first Central League championship in 21 years. In accordance with one of those incomprehensible Japanese traditions, ecstatic fans dressed as members of the winning team leapt from Osaka's Ebisubashi Bridge into the Dontonbori River. Alas, no one could be found who even faintly resembled the team's imported American power slugger, Randy Bass; so the fans took a statue of Colonel Sanders from a nearby KFC outlet and dropped it ...
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