The are a professional baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

 team in the Japanese Central League

Central League

The or is one the two professional baseball leagues that constitute Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan. The winner of the league championship plays against the winner of the Pacific League in the annual Japan Series. It currently consists of six teams from around the country,The Central League...

. Home field is the Yokohama Stadium

Yokohama Stadium

is a stadium in Naka Ward, Yokohama, Japan. It opened in 1978 and holds 30,000 people.It is primarily used for baseball and is the home field of the Yokohama BayStars. The stadium is unique, because it features dirt around the bases and pitcher's mound, but with dirt colored turf infield and base...

, located in central Yokohama

Yokohama

is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu...

. The clubhouse is located near the stadium.

The team mascot is Hossy, the character with the star-shaped head seen on the team logo

Logo

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The minor league team is named the Shonan Searex, and plays in the Eastern League

Eastern League (Japanese baseball)

The is one of the two minor leagues of Japanese professional baseball. The league is owned and managed by the Central League.-History:The league was created in 1955, and contained the minor league teams of the seven professional teams that had their homefields in the Eastern region of Japan...

. The minor league home field is Yokosuka Stadium, located in Yokosuka, Kanagawa

Yokosuka, Kanagawa

is a city located in Kanagawa, Japan. As of 2010, the city had an estimated population of 419,067 and a population density of 4,160 people per km². It covered an area of 100.62 km²...

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The team's name has changed from: (1950–1952), (1953), (1954), (1955–1977), (1978–1992) to the current name, Yokohama BayStars, adopted in 1993.
The team originated from the amateur team of the Taiyo Fishing Company (current Maruha Corporation).