Doosan Bears
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| League | KBO |
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| Location | Seoul |
| Ballpark | Jamsil Baseball Stadium |
| Year Founded | 1982 |
| League championships | 1982, 1995, 2001 |
| Former name(s) | OB Bears |
| Colors | Blue, Yellow, and White |
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The Doosan Bears (두산 베어스) are a professional baseball team based in Seoul, South Korea. The Bears are a member of the Korean Baseball Organization.
The club was founded in Daejeon, South Korea in 1982 as the OB Bears, and moved to Seoul, South Korea in 1985 before being officially renamed the "Doosan Bears" in 1999. The Doosan Bears (formerly the OB Bears) won the Korean Series in 1982, the inaugural KBO season. The Bears have won three Korea Series titles (1982, 1995, 2001). The Bears play their home games at Seoul's Jamsil Baseball Stadium.
The principal sponsor, Doosan, is primarily involved in construction and heavy industry, although like many Korean chaebol it has an extremely wide ranging portfolio of interests. It claims to be Korea's oldest company. The previous sponsor, OB (Oriental Brewery) 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 Kim Young-Shin who died. And the number twenty-one is the legendary pitcher, Park Chul-Soon, 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 in the 1982 Korean Series. 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 threw out the first pitch at a Doosan Bears game on a visit to Korea in 2006.
[edit] Season by Season Records
| Year | Rank | Games | W | L | Win% | BA | HR |
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| 1982 | 1 | 80 | 56 | 24 | .700 | .283 | 57 |
| 1983 | 7 | 100 | 44 | 55 | .444 | .259 | 50 |
| 1984 | 7 | 100 | 58 | 41 | .586 | .256 | 53 |
| 1985 | 7 | 110 | 51 | 57 | .472 | .260 | 67 |
| 1986 | 7 | 108 | 56 | 48 | .538 | .249 | 38 |
| 1987 | 7 | 108 | 55 | 52 | .514 | .261 | 30 |
| 1988 | 7 | 108 | 54 | 52 | .509 | .258 | 44 |
| 1989 | 7 | 120 | 54 | 63 | .463 | .247 | 42 |
| 1990 | 7 | 120 | 35 | 80 | .313 | .231 | 62 |
| 1991 | 8 | 126 | 51 | 73 | .413 | .250 | 59 |
| 1992 | 5 | 126 | 56 | 66 | .460 | .259 | 110 |
| 1993 | 3 | 126 | 66 | 55 | .544 | .258 | 59 |
| 1994 | 7 | 126 | 53 | 72 | .425 | .246 | 75 |
| 1995 | 1 | 126 | 74 | 47 | .607 | .266 | 106 |
| 1996 | 8 | 126 | 47 | 73 | .397 | .242 | 82 |
| 1997 | 5 | 126 | 57 | 64 | .472 | .254 | 84 |
| 1998 | 4 | 126 | 61 | 62 | .496 | .256 | 102 |
| 1999 | 3 | 132 | 76 | 51 | .598 | .284 | 141 |
| 2000 | 2 | 133 | 76 | 57 | .571 | .289 | 150 |
| 2001 | 1 | 133 | 65 | 63 | .508 | .276 | 130 |
| 2002 | 5 | 133 | 66 | 65 | .504 | .261 | 130 |
| 2003 | 7 | 133 | 57 | 74 | .435 | .276 | 90 |
| 2004 | 3 | 133 | 70 | 62 | .530 | .268 | 89 |
| 2005 | 2 | 126 | 72 | 51 | .585 | .270 | 63 |
| 2006 | 5 | 126 | 63 | 60 | .512 | .258 | 55 |
| 2007 | 2 | 126 | 70 | 54 | .565 | .263 | 78 |
| 2008 | 2 | 126 | 70 | 56 | .555 | .276 | 80 |
[edit] Roster
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The Doosan Bears roster
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