Eastern League (Japanese baseball)

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The Eastern League (イースタン・リーグ) is one of the two minor leagues ("ni-gun")^[1] of Japanese professional baseball. The league is owned and managed by the Central League of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Teams in the Eastern League generally play an 80-game schedule every year.