LG Twins


LG Twins is a South Korean professional baseball team based in Seoul, South Korea. They are a member of the KBO League. The Twins play their home games at Jamsil Baseball Stadium, which they share with their rival, the Doosan Bears; the stadium is known as "Two families under one roof."
The LG Twins are one of the most popular baseball teams in Korea. They gained many fans in the 1980s–2000s, most of whom live in Seoul.

History

The club was first established in 1982 as MBC Chungyong, owned by the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation. For the very first half-season in 1982 the team played at Dongdaemun Baseball Stadium; in the fall season of 1982 the team moved to their current home, Jamsil Baseball Stadium.
The Chungyong were initially led by player-manager Baek In-chun, a Korean who had spent 19 seasons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. Incredibly, at age 38, Baek led the league in hitting in 1982, with a record-setting.412 batting average. As manager, Baek brought the Japanese "small ball" technique to his team, focusing on sacrifice bunts, stolen bases, and sacrifice flies. Although the team finished above.500 in 1982, Baek was let go by the team after the season.
In, the franchise was acquired by LG Corporation, which renamed the team the LG Twins. The Twins won the Korean Series in —the first year with their new name—under the returned Baek In-chun. They again won the KBO championship in. The Korean Series MVP was Kim Yong-soo in both Series. Kim's number, 41, was for many years the only retired number of the team, before Lee Byung-kyu's number 9 was retired on July 9, 2017, in a ceremony that took place both before and after the game against the Hanwha Eagles.

Season-by-season records

Personnel

Current lineup

Managers

The team features prominently in the tvN drama Reply 1994, where the team's 1994 coach is a main character. The team is referenced under a different name, "Seoul Twins", due to trademark issues with the LG Corporation.