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Doosan Bears (?? ???) are a Korean professional baseball
Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
 team founded in . The Doosan Bears (formerly the OB Bears) won the Korean Series
Korean Series

The Korean Series is the championship series of the Korea Baseball Organization. It has been held since the KBO's first season in and is the final series of in the post-season play-offs....
 in 1982, the inaugural KBO
Korean Baseball Organization

The Korea Baseball Organization of South Korea is the country's professional baseball league. KBO was originally founded with six teams in 1982 and currently has eight teams....
 season. The Doosan Bears have won three Korea Series titles (1982, 1995, 2001). The Bears play their home games at Seoul
Seoul

Seoul is the Capital and largest city of South Korea. With a population of over 10 million, It is one of the world's List of cities proper by population.The Seoul National Capital Area - which includes the major port city of Incheon and satellite towns in Gyeonggi-do, has 24.5 million inhabitants and is the world's second largest List of me...
's Jamsil Baseball Stadium
Jamsil Baseball Stadium

Jamsil Baseball Stadium is a baseball stadium in Jamsil-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul, South Korea. The stadium holds 30,265 people and was built in 1982....
.

The principal sponsor, Doosan, is primarily involved in construction and heavy industry, although like many Korean chaebol
Chaebol

Chaebol refers to a South Korean form of business conglomerate . They are government-supported powerful global multinationals, often larger than entire countries' economies, owning numerous international enterprises....
 it has an extremely wide ranging portfolio of interests.






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Doosan Bears (?? ???) are a Korean professional baseball
Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
 team founded in . The Doosan Bears (formerly the OB Bears) won the Korean Series
Korean Series

The Korean Series is the championship series of the Korea Baseball Organization. It has been held since the KBO's first season in and is the final series of in the post-season play-offs....
 in 1982, the inaugural KBO
Korean Baseball Organization

The Korea Baseball Organization of South Korea is the country's professional baseball league. KBO was originally founded with six teams in 1982 and currently has eight teams....
 season. The Doosan Bears have won three Korea Series titles (1982, 1995, 2001). The Bears play their home games at Seoul
Seoul

Seoul is the Capital and largest city of South Korea. With a population of over 10 million, It is one of the world's List of cities proper by population.The Seoul National Capital Area - which includes the major port city of Incheon and satellite towns in Gyeonggi-do, has 24.5 million inhabitants and is the world's second largest List of me...
's Jamsil Baseball Stadium
Jamsil Baseball Stadium

Jamsil Baseball Stadium is a baseball stadium in Jamsil-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul, South Korea. The stadium holds 30,265 people and was built in 1982....
.

The principal sponsor, Doosan, is primarily involved in construction and heavy industry, although like many Korean chaebol
Chaebol

Chaebol refers to a South Korean form of business conglomerate . They are government-supported powerful global multinationals, often larger than entire countries' economies, owning numerous international enterprises....
 it has an extremely wide ranging portfolio of interests. It claims to be Korea's oldest company. The previous sponsor, OB (Oriental Brewery
Oriental Brewery

Oriental Brewery or OB is a South Korean brewery established by the Doosan Group in 1952. It was purchased by InBev in 2003. Today OB produces several of Korea's most popular beverages including the OB, Cass and Cafri lager brands....
) produces one of South Korea's top selling lager brands.

In Doosan Bears, both number twenty-one and fifty-four had become retired numbers. The number fifty-four is in memory of a catcher Youngshin KIM who died. And the number twenty-one is the legendary pitcher, Chulsoon PARK, whose nickname is a phoenix. PARK had made the greatest myth as an injured player in his period won the award of the Most Valuable Player
Most Valuable Player

In sports, a Most Valuable Player award is an honor typically bestowed upon the best performing player or players on a specific team, in an entire league, or for a particular contest or series of contests....
 in Korean Series 1982. Next year when he won the award, he had been injured fatally. But he tried to stand on the ground and he made glorious stories, even though he was injured again after that time. He is still held in high esteem from not only most Bears fans but many Korean Baseball Fans.

Korean-American Pittsburgh Steeler Hines Ward
Hines Ward

Hines E. Ward, Jr. is a American football player who currently plays the wide receiver position for the National Football League's Pittsburgh Steelers....
 threw out the first pitch at a Doosan Bears game on a visit to Korea in 2006.

History



Season by Season Records

Year Rank Games W L Win % BA ERA
1999 3 132 76 51 0.598 0.284 4.58
2000 2 133 76 57 0.571 0.289 4.22
2001 1 133 65 63 0.508 0.276 4.96
2002 5 133 66 65 0.504 0.261 3.93
2003 7 133 57 74 0.435 0.276 4.24
2004 3 133 70 62 0.530 0.268 --
2005 2 126 72 51 0.585 0.270 --
2006 5 126 63 60 0.512 -- --
2007 2 126 70 54 0.565 0.263 3.44
2008 2 126 70 56 0.555 0.276 3.89


Managers

Kim Kyung-Moon
Kim Kyung-Moon

Kim Kyung-Moon is the current manager for the Doosan Bears in Korea Baseball Organization....


Players of note

Tyronne Woods

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