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Eastern League (Japanese baseball)
Sport	Baseball
Founded	1955
Ceased	1956 (revived in 1961)
No. of teams	8
Country	Japan

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.

^ "Minor League History," JapaneseBaseball.com. Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. Accessed April 20, 2015.