In 1961, the team ended up being third in the league for first time in their team history. The team never finished with a winning record in their entire first decade of the 1950s. The team name was made the Kokutetsu Swallows. The franchise was established for the first time in 1950 when the team was created by the owners of what was then Japanese National Railways (now the privatized Japan Railways Group). Yakult purchased the team in 1970 and renamed it the Yakult Atoms, before renaming it again as the Yakult Swallows in 1974, and then the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in 2006. From 1950 to 1965, the team was owned by the former Japanese National Railways (known as Kokutetsu (国鉄) in Japanese) and called the Kokutetsu Swallows the team was then owned by the newspaper Sankei Shimbun from 1965 to 1968 and called the Sankei Atoms. The Swallows are named after their corporate owners, Yakult Honsha. Since 1964, they play their games at Meiji Jingu Stadium. They have won 8 Central League championships and 6 Japan Series championships. Based in Shinjuku, Tokyo, they are one of two professional baseball teams based in Tokyo, the other being the Yomiuri Giants. The Tokyo Yakult Swallows ( Japanese: 東京ヤクルトスワローズ) are a Japanese professional baseball team competing in Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League.

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