1956 Nippon Professional Baseball season

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Sport Baseball Runners-up Nankai Hawks Finals MVP Yasumitsu Toyoda (NIS) Finals champion Saitama Seibu Lions		Runners-up Osaka Tigers Runners-up Yomiuri Giants Champion Saitama Seibu Lions
Season MVPs Takehiko Bessho (Yomiuri Giants), Futoshi Nakanishi (Saitama Seibu Lions) League champions Yomiuri Giants, Saitama Seibu Lions People also search for 1957 Nippon Professional Baseball season

The 1956 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the seventh season of operation of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Japan Series

PL Nishitetsu Lions (4) vs. CL Yomiuri Giants (2)

Most Valuable Player

Takehiko Bessho, Yomiuri Giants (CL)

Futoshi Nakanishi, Nishitetsu Lions (PL)

Rookie of the Year

Noboru Akiyama, Taiyo Whales (CL)

Kazuhisa Inao, Nishitetsu Lions (PL)

Eiji Sawamura Award

Masaichi Kaneda, Kokutetsu Swallows (CL)

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