Kintetsu Buffaloes

The Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes (in Kanji, 大阪近鉄バファローズ) was a professional baseball team in Japan's Pacific League. The team was owned by the Kinki Nippon Railway and later sold to the owners of the Orix Blue Wave baseball team, the Orix Group in 2004. The Orix Group then announced that they will merged the Kintetsu Buffaloes and Orix Blue Wave into one team called the Orix Buffaloes before the start of the 2004-2005 Japanese Baseball season.

Founded: 1950

Formerly known as: Kintetsu Pearls (1950-1958), Kintetsu Buffalo (1959-1961), Kintetsu Buffaloes (1962-1998), Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes (1999-2004), Orix Buffaloes (2005-)

Home ballpark: Osaka Dome

Uniform colors: Red, Black and White

Logo design: A stylized buffalo's head or "Buffaloes" in red script, outlined with white

League championships won (4): 1979, 1980, 1989, 2001

Japan Series championships won (0):

Players of note

Former players

• Ralph Bryant
• Phil Clark
• Hideo Nomo
• Akinori Otsuka
• Keishi Suzuki

Retired numbers

• 1 Keishi Suzuki