일제강점기 조선의 실업야구와 전일본도시대항야구대회

Abstract

After baseball was introduced to Japan in 1873, a baseball team was founded in Japan, various competitions were held, and baseball as a business began. In Joseon, a colony of the Japanese Empire, the Japanese began to establish a business baseball team in the 1910s, and the media held baseball competitions, and baseball began to gain popularity in the late 1910s. In the 1920s, a baseball tournament hosted by the media was held in Joseon, and in 1927, the Joseon qualifying tournament for the Japanese Intercity Baseball Tournament was held in all parts of Joseon. In particular, in Gyeongseong, the Gyeongseong Business Baseball Federation, which belonged to the best baseball teams in Joseon, was launched in 1927 and the spring and autumn leagues began, and baseball teams from the Gyeongseong Business Baseball Federation won the finals of the Japanese Intercity Baseball Tournament in Tokyo. Most of the players in the Gyeongseong Business Baseball Federation League were from middle school and university, and among them were Korean players. The Joseon Baseball Association was established by the Korean baseball players who played in the business baseball system and competitions established and implemented in Japanese colonial era by rebuilding business baseball by laying the foundation for Korean baseball after liberation. In addition, the Korean Intercity Baseball Tournament was held, and the Korea Business Baseball League began with the establishment of the Hansung Industrial Baseball Federation, leading to the Korean adult baseball league, and laying the foundation for the Korean professional baseball league which launched in 1982.