Fans voted on their top 10 news-making events of the year. Here they are. Video links have all been removed because the videos have been taken down from YouTube.
#10 (tie): The Tiger Girls; Kubota of “JFK” Announces Retirement (22 votes)
#9: Manager Yutaka Wada has his contract extended (33 votes)
#8: Takahiro Arai leaves the club, returns to Hiroshima Carp (37 votes)
#7: Team loses “the war to acquire Hiroyuki Nakajima” (50 votes)
#6: Sekimoto’s pinch hit grand slam to beat the Giants (55 votes)
#5: Nishioka’s season-ending base runner interference call (104 votes)
#4: Takashi Toritani declares himself an overseas free agent (140 votes)
#3: Six individual titles won by Tigers! (221 votes)
#2: Nishioka and Fukudome collide in the outfield (363 votes)