Eastern League (Japanese baseball) Eastern League (Japanese baseball) The is one of the two minor leagues ("ni-gun") of Japanese professional baseball. The league is owned and managed by the Central League of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Teams in the Eastern League generally play an 80-game schedule every year. In 1954 the six teams of NPB's Central League agreed to form their own minor league — the Shin Nippon League (or "New Japan League") — as a complement to the already extant Kansai Farm League, which had begun play in 1952. The minor league affiliates of the Chunichi Dragons and Hanshin Tigers moved over from
The Old Woman in the Wood a specific door (which turns out to be the nose of a skull placed on top of a rotating shelf), then find the plain ring and bring it to the owl. The Old Woman in the Wood "The Old Woman in the Wood" ) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 123. It is Aarne-Thompson type 442. A beautiful but poor servant girl traveled with the family she worked for when robbers attacked them. She hid behind a tree, but no one else survived. She lamented her fate, and a dove came to her with