Kindai University
- Location: Higashiosaka, Osaka
- Conference: Kinki University Baseball League 1948-1962 Kansai6 Baseball League 1963-1981 Kansai Big 6 University Baseball League 1982-
All-Japan University Baseball Championship Series Appearances: 31 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1966, 1974, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2017, 2022, 2023
Meiji Jingu Baseball Convention Appearances: 13 1975, 1976, 1981, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2018
Tournament Titles: 1988 All-Japan Series, 1989 All-Japan Series, 1989 Meiji-Jingu Convention, 1997 Meiji-Jingu Convention, 1997 All-Japan Series, 1998 All-Japan Series
Kindai University has won 40 championships in the Kansai Big 6 University Baseball League and 9 titles in the Kansai6 Baseball League. It has won the title of the All-Japan University Baseball Championship Series four times, and it won two Meiji Jingu Baseball Convention titles. The school changed it's name from Kinki University in 2016.
People who went here[edit]
- Tateki Abe, NPB pitcher
- Junji Akai, Japanese national team infielder
- Takahiro Araki, NPB outfielder
- Michiyo Arito, NPB infielder and manager
- Toyoji Asagi, Japanese national team outfielder
- Masaaki Daito, NPB pitcher
- Akihito Fujii, NPB catcher
- Shunsuke Fujikawa, NPB outfielder
- Kazuya Fujita, NPB infielder
- Mitsuru Fujiwara, NPB infielder
- Hideto Fuke, NPB umpire
- Eisaku Hirose, Japanese national team outfielder
- Keigo Imai, NPB pitcher
- Yoshio Itoi, NPB outfielder
- Keisuke Katto, NPB pitcher
- Hide Koga, NPB outfielder and coach
- Takeshi Kunimoto, Japanese national team catcher
- Wei-Chu Lin, NPB outfielder
- Masashi Matsuoka, Japanese national team pitcher
- Shiro Mori, Japanese national team infielder
- Masumitsu Moriguchi, NPB pitcher
- Noriyuki Morinaga, Japanese national team pitcher
- Koichi Morita, NPB pitcher
- Noboru Morita, Japanese national team outfielder
- Masato Nakamura, NPB outfielder
- Yuhei Nakaushiro, minor league pitcher
- Tomohiro Nioka, NPB infielder
- Tsuyoshi Nishioka, NPB pitcher
- Tadayoshi Okuma, NPB outfielder
- Shinichi Okumura, Japanese national team infielder
- Hiroaki Onishi, NPB outfielder
- Kenji Otonari, NPB pitcher
- Hiroyuki Oze, NPB outfielder
- Minoru Saeki, Japanese national team catcher
- Mitsujiro Sakai, NPB pitcher
- Shigeki Sano, NPB pitcher
- Teruaki Sato, NPB infielder
- Akio Shimizu, NPB pitcher
- Minoru Shimizu, Japanese womens' national team coach
- Hide Sueyoshi, scout
- Kazuhiro Takeoka, NPB pitcher
- Atsushi Tanaka, Japanese national team pitcher
- Shingo Tatsumi, NPB pitcher
- Akihiro Togo, Japanese national team infielder
- Shinji Udaka, NPB pitcher
- Tetsuya Yamamoto, NPB pitcher
- Katsumi Yamashita, NPB infielder
- Ritsuo Yamashita, NPB pitcher
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