High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yokohama BayStars are a professional baseball team in the Japanese Central League. Home field is the Yokohama Stadium, located in central Yokohama. The clubhouse is located near the stadium. The team mascot is Hossy, the character with the star-shaped head seen on the team logo. The minor league team is named the Shonan Searex, and plays in the Eastern League. The minor league home field is Yokosuka Stadium, located in Yokosuka, Kanagawa. The team's name has changed from: Taiy? Whales (1950–1952), Taiy?-Shochiku Robins (1953), Y?-Sh? Robins (1954), Taiy? Whales (1955–1977), Yokohama Taiy? Whales (1978–1992) to the current name, Yokohama BayStars, adopted in 1993. The team originated from the amateur team of the Taiyo Fishing Company (current Maruha Corporation). The amateur team began to appear in national tournaments in the 1930s, and won the National Sports Festival in 1948 to obtain national recognition. In the 1949 off-season, the Japanese professional baseball league drastically expanded itself, and many players from the Taiyo amateur team were recruited to join the professional leagues.

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