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The Orix Buffaloes lost pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto at the end of 2023 to the Los Angeles Dodgers and a 12-year, $325 million contract (overshadowed by the Shohei Ohtani signing just a bit). That Japanese baseball team has a special lineage as their history tracks all the way back to 1936 as one of Japan's first baseball teams. That team hailed from Osaka, was named after its owner, the Hankyu Railway, and had what nickname from 1947 to 1990?

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