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This video is a compilation of videos that someone previously uploaded but that are no longer available. ☆1982-85: The first golden age, the Hirooka era☆ https://www.seibulions.jp/expansion/histor... 00:00 [1982] First year in office https://www.seibulions.jp/expansion/histor... The first league championship and Japan Series championship for the Seibu Lions. Tatsuro Hirooka is the third manager in professional baseball history to win Japan Series in both the Central and Pacific Leagues, following Osamu Mihara and Shigeru Mizuhara. *To this day, these three are the only people to have achieved this feat. 05:21 [1983] Second year in office https://www.seibulions.jp/expansion/histor... Japan Series championship for two consecutive years. Winning percentage of .683 is the 10th highest since the two-league system was introduced, and the highest winning percentage since the 1970s. The Japan Series against the Giants attracted a lot of attention as a "battle for the position of the leader of the baseball world," and three of the seven games in the series had a viewership rating (in the Kanto region) of over 40%. *The game with the highest viewership rating (in the Kanto region) in the Japan Series was 45.6% for the 1978 Yakult vs Hankyu Game 7, in which Hirooka participated as the manager of Yakult. 10:07 [1984] Third year in officehttps://www.seibulions.jp/expansion/histor... After the opening, the veteran players all fell into a slump, so the decision was made to switch to younger players in late May, ahead of schedule. The team finished third in the season, but Hirooka himself later wrote, "In my career as a baseball coach, I think my third year with Seibu was the best." (Book: Coach Theory) 12:01 【1985】4th year in officehttps://www.seibulions.jp/expansion/histor... First league championship in 2 years. Hirooka retired this year, but the Lions achieved a generational change, and these players will be the core of the Seibu Lions' second golden age under manager Mori Mitsuaki.