Doosan Bears

{{short description|South Korean baseball team in Seoul, South Korea}} {{Infobox baseball team | name = Doosan Bears | native_name = 두산 베어스 | native_name_lang = ko | established = {{Start date and age|1982}} | location = Seoul | logo = Doosan Bears.svg | logo_size = 160 | cap_logo = Doosan cap logo 2025.svg | cap_logo_size = 120 | league = KBO League (1982–present) | retired_numbers = 21, 54 | colors = Navy blue, red, white {{color box|#131230}} {{color box|#ED1C24}} {{color box|white}} | former_names = OB Bears (1982–1998) | nickname = | ballpark = Jamsil Baseball Stadium (1986–present) | mascot = Cheolwoong | former_ballparks = * Daejeon Hanbat Baseball Stadium (1982–1984) * Dongdaemun Baseball Stadium (1985) | league_champs = 1995, 2016, 2018, 2019 | series = Korean Series | series_champs = 1982, 1995, 2001, 2015, 2016, 2019 | owner = Doosan | manager = Kim Won-hyong | general_manager = | uniform = | website = {{URL|https://www.doosanbears.com/}} }} The '''Doosan Bears''' ({{langx|ko|두산 베어스}}) are a South Korean professional baseball team based in Seoul. Founded in 1982, they are a member of the KBO League. The Bears have won six Korean Series titles (1982, 1995, 2001, 2015, 2016, and 2019) and play their home games at Seoul's Jamsil Baseball Stadium.<ref name="bears"/>

==History== The club was founded in Daejeon in {{baseball year|1982}} as the OB Bears,<ref name="yonhap1">{{cite web |title=S. Korea's first baseball dome opens, tenant still needed |url=https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20150915002400315 |website=Yonhap News Agency |access-date=21 February 2022 |date=15 September 2015}}</ref> with the Oriental Brewery as their owners. OB Bears were the first team to be founded in the KBO League. The Doosan Group initially wanted a base in Seoul from 1982, as their company was founded in Seoul and had no connection to Chungcheong Province. But since there was no corporation that could establish a baseball team in Daejeon, Doosan agreed to play in Daejeon for three years before returning to Seoul.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lee |first1=Jae-kuk |title=[이재국의 베팬알백] <1편> 서울? 대전? 인천? OB 베어스의 장엄한 첫발 |url=https://www.doosanbears.com/doorundoorun/blog/56?currentPage=12 |publisher=Doosan Bears|language=ko|website=doosanbears.com|access-date=13 January 2025|date=3 July 2018}}</ref>

In {{baseball year|1985}}, the team moved to their current home in Seoul.<ref name="yonhap1"/> The OB Bears were officially renamed the Doosan Bears in {{baseball year|1999}}, after Oriental Brewery was sold to InBev and the Doosan Group assumed ownership.<ref>{{cite web |title=Inside the KBO: From Superstars to Wiz in 39 years |url=https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2021/01/30/sports/Baseball/KBO-korean-baseball-KBO-history/20210130085400752.html |website=Korea JoongAng Daily |access-date=21 February 2022 |date=30 January 2021}}</ref>

The Bears won the inaugural Korean Series in 1982 by defeating the Samsung Lions to become the first KBO League champion.<ref>{{cite web |title=Samsung, Doosan eyeing history in Korean Series |url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20131023000290 |website=The Korea Herald |access-date=21 February 2022 |date=23 October 2013}}</ref> Between 2015 and 2021, the Bears appeared in seven consecutive Korean Series championships, winning three of the series in 2015, 2016 and 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title='Miracle Doosan' reach record seventh straight Korean Series |url=https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2021/11/11/sports/Baseball/Doosan-Bears-Samsung-Lions-KBO/20211111121117683.html |access-date=21 February 2022 |date=11 November 2021|website=Korea JoongAng Daily}}</ref>

== Team colors == The main colors of the team are navy blue and white, with red as the secondary color. From 1999 to 2009, yellow was used instead as the secondary color, before the team returned in 2010 to the iconic dark blue and red combination of the original OB Bears.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BI – 두산베어스 |url=https://www.doosanbears.com/doosan/bi |access-date=11 December 2023|publisher=Doosan Bears|language=ko|website=doosanbears.com|archive-date=27 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327173820/https://www.doosanbears.com/doosan/bi}}</ref>

== Mascot == The Doosan Bears mascot is a bear named Cheolwoong (철웅).<ref>{{cite web |title=[이석우의 스포츠 톡톡]두산 마스코트 철웅이의 외로운 응원 |url=https://www.khan.co.kr/sports/baseball/article/202007141607011 |website=Kyunghyang Shinmun |access-date=21 February 2022 |language=ko |date=14 July 2020}}</ref> Its biggest feature is that it embodies the bear, the symbolic animal of Doosan Bears, as a dynamic robot character. It emphasized strength and a future-oriented image.<ref>{{cite web |title=두산, 11일 2010 새 마스코트 발표 |url=https://www.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/02/11/2010021101058.html |website=The Chosun Ilbo |access-date=1 April 2024 |language=ko |date=11 February 2010}}</ref> left|thumb|160px|Cheolwoong, the Doosan Bears mascot {{clear}}

==Season-by-season records== {|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%;" |- !style="background:#131230;color:white;" rowspan="2"| Season !!style="background:#131230;color:white;" rowspan="2"| City !!style="background:#131230;color:white;" rowspan="2"| Stadium !!style="background:#131230;color:white;" rowspan="2"| League !!style="background:#131230;color:white;" rowspan="2"| Finish !!style="background:#131230;color:white;" colspan="9"| Regular season !!style="background:#131230;color:white;" rowspan="2"| Postseason !!style="background:#131230;color:white;" rowspan="2"| Awards |- ! style="background:#131230;color:white;" | Rank !! style="background:#131230;color:white;" | Games !! style="background:#131230;color:white;" | Wins !! style="background:#131230;color:white;" | Losses !! style="background:#131230;color:white;" | Draws !! style="background:#131230;color:white;" | Win% !! style="background:#131230;color:white;" | BA !! style="background:#131230;color:white;" | HR !! style="background:#131230;color:white;" | ERA |- |colspan="16" style="background:#131230; color:white"|'''OB Bears''' |- | rowspan="2"|1982 || rowspan="6"|Daejeon || rowspan="6"|Daejeon Hanbat Baseball Stadium|| rowspan="2"|KBO || rowspan="2"|1 || 1/6 || 40 || 29 || |11 || 0 || .725 || rowspan="2"|.283 || rowspan="2"|57 || rowspan="2"|3.20 || style="background:gold;" rowspan="2"|'''Won''' Korean Series vs. Samsung Lions (4–1–1) || rowspan="2"| Park Chul-soon ({{abbr|MVP|Most Valuable Player}}) |- ||2/6 || 40 || 27 || 13 || 0 || .675 |- |rowspan="2"|1983 || rowspan="2"|KBO || rowspan="2"|5 || 6/6 || 50 || 22 || 28 || 0 || .440 || rowspan="2"|.259 || rowspan="2"|50 || rowspan="2"|3.54 || rowspan="2"|{{Sort|9|''Did not qualify''}} || rowspan="2"| Park Jong-hoon ({{abbr|ROTY|Rookie of the Year}}) |- || 5/6 || 50 || 22 || 27 || 1 || .449 |- |rowspan="2"|1984 || rowspan="2"|KBO || rowspan="2"|3 || 2/6 || 50 || 30 || 20 || 0 || .600 || rowspan="2"|.256 || rowspan="2"|53 || rowspan="2"|2.53 || rowspan="2"|{{Sort|9|''Did not qualify''}} || rowspan="2"| Yun Seog-hwan (ROTY) |- || 2/6 || 50 || 28 || 21 || 1 || .571 |- |rowspan="2"|1985 || rowspan="18"|Seoul || rowspan="2"|Dongdaemun Baseball Stadium|| rowspan="2"|KBO || rowspan="2"|4 || 2/6 || 55 || 29 || 25 || 1 || .537 || rowspan="2"|.260 || rowspan="2"|67 || rowspan="2"|3.16 || rowspan="2"|{{Sort|9|''Did not qualify''}} || rowspan="2"| |- || 5/6 || 55 || 22 || 32 || 1 || .409 |- |rowspan="2"|1986 || rowspan="16"|Jamsil Baseball Stadium|| rowspan="2"|KBO || rowspan="2"|3 || 5/7 || 54 || 23 || 29 || 2 || .442 || rowspan="2"|.249 || rowspan="2"|38 || rowspan="2"|2.61 || rowspan="2"|'''Lost''' playoff vs. Samsung Lions (2–3) || rowspan="2"| |- || 1/7 || 54 || 33 || 19 || 2 || .635 |- |rowspan="2"|1987 || rowspan="2"|KBO || rowspan="2"|3 || 2/7 || 54 || 30 || 22 || 2 || .574 || rowspan="2"|.261 || rowspan="2"|30 || rowspan="2"|3.26 || rowspan="2"|'''Lost''' playoff vs. Haitai Tigers (2–3) || rowspan="2"| |- || 5/7 || 54 || 24 || 30 || 0 || .444 |- |rowspan="2"|1988 || rowspan="2"|KBO || rowspan="2"|5 || 3/7 || 54 || 31 || 23 || 0 || .574 || rowspan="2"|.258 || rowspan="2"|44 || rowspan="2"|3.73 || rowspan="2"|{{Sort|9|''Did not qualify''}} || rowspan="2"| |- || 5/7 || 54 || 23 || 29 || 2 || .444 |- |1989 || KBO || 5 || 5/7 || 120 || 54 || 63 || 3 || .463 || .247 || 42 || 3.70 || {{Sort|9|''Did not qualify''}} || |- |1990 || KBO || 7 || 7/7 || 120 || 35 || 80 || 5 || .313 || .231 || 62 || 4.72 || {{Sort|9|''Did not qualify''}} || |- |1991 || KBO || 8 || 8/8 || 126 || 51 || 73 || 2 || .413 || .250 || 59 || 4.32 || {{Sort|9|''Did not qualify''}} || |- |1992 || KBO || 5 || 5/8 || 126 || 56 || 66 || 4 || .460 || .259 || 110 || 4.22 || {{Sort|9|''Did not qualify''}} || |- |1993 || KBO || 4 || 3/8 || 126 || 66 || 55 || 5 || .544 || .258 || 59 || 2.89 || '''Lost''' semi-playoff vs. LG Twins (1–2) || |- |1994 || KBO || 7 || 7/8 || 126 || 53 || 72 || 1 || .425 || .246 || 75 || 3.46 || {{Sort|9|''Did not qualify''}} || |- |1995 || KBO || 1 || 1/8 || 126 || 74 || 47 || 5 || .607 || .266 || 106 || 3.42 || style="background:gold;"|'''Won''' Korean Series vs. Lotte Giants (4–3) || Kim Sang-ho (MVP) |- |1996 || KBO || 8 || 8/8 || 126 || 47 || 73 || 6 || .397 || .242 || 82 || 3.67 || {{Sort|9|''Did not qualify''}} || |- |1997 || KBO || 5 || 5/8 || 126 || 57 || 64 || 5 || .472 || .254 || 84 || 3.84 || {{Sort|9|''Did not qualify''}} || |- |1998 || KBO || 4 || 4/8 || 126 || 61 || 62 || 3 || .496 || .256 || 102 || 3.60 || '''Lost''' semi-playoff vs. LG Twins (0–2) || Tyrone Woods (MVP) |- |colspan="16" style="background:#131230; color:white"|'''Doosan Bears''' |- |1999 || rowspan="27"|Seoul || rowspan="27"|Jamsil Baseball Stadium|| Dream League || 4 || 1/4 || 132 || 76 || 51 || 5 || .598 || .284 || 141 || 4.58 || '''Lost''' playoff vs. Hanwha Eagles (0–4) || Hong Sung-heon (ROTY) |- |2000 || Dream League || 2 || 2/4 || 133 || 76 || 57 || 0 || .571 || .289 || 150 || 4.22 || '''Won''' playoff vs. LG Twins (4–2) '''Lost''' Korean Series vs. Hyundai Unicorns (3–4) || |- |2001 || KBO || 1 || 3/8 || 133 || 65 || 63 || 5 || .508 || .276 || 130 || 4.96 || style="background:gold;"|'''Won''' semi-playoff vs. Hanwha Eagles (2–0) '''Won''' playoff vs. Hyundai Unicorns (3–1) '''Won''' Korean Series vs. Samsung Lions (4–2) || |- |2002 || KBO || 5 || 5/8 || 133 || 66 || 65 || 2 || .504 || .261 || 130 || 3.93 || {{Sort|9|''Did not qualify''}} || |- |2003 || KBO || 7 || 7/8 || 133 || 57 || 74 || 2 || .435 || .276 || 90 || 4.25 || {{Sort|9|''Did not qualify''}} || |- |2004 || KBO || 3 || 3/8 || 133 || 70 || 62 || 1 || .530 || .268 || 89 || 3.88 || '''Won''' semi-playoff vs. Kia Tigers (2–0) '''Lost''' playoff vs. Samsung Lions (1–3) || |- |2005 || KBO || 2 || 2/8 || 126 || 72 || 51 || 3 || .585 || .270 || 63 || 3.42 || '''Won''' playoff vs. Hanwha Eagles (3–0) '''Lost''' Korean Series vs. Samsung Lions (0–4) || |- |2006 || KBO || 5 || 5/8 || 126 || 63 || 60 || 3 || .512 || .258|| 55 || 3.36 || {{Sort|9|''Did not qualify''}} || |- |2007 || KBO || 2 || 2/8 || 126 || 70 || 54 || 2 || .565 || .263 || 78 || 3.45 || '''Won''' playoff vs. Hanwha Eagles (3–0) '''Lost''' Korean Series vs. SK Wyverns (2–4) || Danny Rios (MVP) Im Tae-hoon (ROTY) |- |2008 || KBO || 2 || 2/8 || 126 || 70 || 56 || 0 || .556 || .276 || 68 || 3.89 || '''Won''' playoff vs. Samsung Lions (4–2) '''Lost''' Korean Series vs. SK Wyverns (1–4) || |- |2009 || KBO || 3 || 3/8 || 133 || 71 || 60 || 2 || .534 || .280 || 120 || 4.60 || '''Won''' semi-playoff vs. Lotte Giants (3–1) '''Lost''' playoff vs. SK Wyverns (2–3) || Lee Yong-chan (ROTY) |- |2010 || KBO || 3 || 3/8 || 133 || 73 || 57 || 3 || .562 || .281 || 149 || 4.62 || '''Won''' semi-playoff vs. Lotte Giants (3–2) '''Lost''' playoff vs. Samsung Lions (2–3) || Yang Eui-ji (ROTY) |- |2011 || KBO || 5 || 5/8 || 133 || 61 || 70 || 2 || .466 || .271 || 92 || 4.26 || {{Sort|9|''Did not qualify''}} || |- |2012 || KBO || 3 || 3/8 || 133 || 68 || 62 || 3 || .523 || .260 || 59 || 3.58 || '''Lost''' semi-playoff vs. Lotte Giants (1–3) || |- |2013 || KBO || 2 || 4/9 || 128 || 71 || 54 || 3 || .568 || .289 || 95 || 4.57 || '''Won''' semi-playoff vs. Nexen Heroes (3–2) '''Won''' playoff vs. LG Twins (3–1) '''Lost''' Korean Series vs. Samsung Lions (3–4) || |- |2014 || KBO || 6 || 6/9 || 128 || 59 || 68 || 1 || .465 || .293 || 108 || 5.43 || {{Sort|9|''Did not qualify''}} || |- |2015 || KBO || 1 || 3/10 || 144 || 79 || 65 || 0 || .549 || .290 || 140 || 5.02 || style="background:gold;"|'''Won''' semi-playoff vs. Nexen Heroes (3–1) '''Won''' playoff vs. NC Dinos (3–2) '''Won''' Korean Series vs. Samsung Lions (4–1) || |- |2016 || KBO || 1 || 1/10 || 144 || 93 || 50 || 1 || .650 || .298 || 183 || 4.45 || style="background:gold;"|'''Won''' Korean Series vs. NC Dinos (4–0) || Dustin Nippert (MVP) |- |2017 || KBO || 2 || 2/10 || 144 || 84 || 57 || 3 || .596 || .294 || 178 || 4.38 || '''Won''' playoff vs. NC Dinos (3–1) '''Lost''' Korean Series vs. Kia Tigers (1–4) || |- |2018 || KBO || 2 || 1/10 || 144 || 93 || 51 || 0 || .646 || .309 || 191 || 4.98 || '''Lost''' Korean Series vs. SK Wyverns (2–4) || Kim Jae-hwan (MVP) |- |2019 || KBO || 1 || 1/10 || 144 || 88 || 55 || 1 || .615 || .278 || 84 || 3.51 || style="background:gold;"|'''Won''' Korean Series vs. Kiwoom Heroes (4–0) || Josh Lindblom (MVP) |- |2020 || KBO || 2 || 3/10 || 144 || 79 || 61 || 4 || .564 || .293 || 125 || 4.31 || '''Won''' semi-playoff vs. LG Twins (2–0) '''Won''' playoff vs. KT Wiz (3–1) '''Lost''' Korean Series vs. NC Dinos (2–4) || |- |2021 || KBO || 2 || 4/10 || 144 || 71 || 65 || 8 || .522 || .268 || 110 || 4.26 || '''Won''' wild card vs. Kiwoom Heroes (1–1) '''Won''' semi-playoff vs. LG Twins (2–1) '''Won''' playoff vs. Samsung Lions (2–0) '''Lost''' Korean Series vs. KT Wiz (0–4) || Ariel Miranda (MVP) |- |2022 || KBO || 9 || 9/10 || 144 || 60 || 82 || 2 || .423 || .255 || 101 || 4.45 || {{Sort|9|''Did not qualify''}} || Jeong Cheol-won (ROTY) |- |2023 || KBO || 5 || 5/10 || 144 || 74 || 68 || 2 || .521 || .255 || 100 || 3.92 || '''Lost''' wild card vs. NC Dinos (0–1) || |- |2024 || KBO || 4 || 4/10 || 144 || 74 || 68 || 2 || .521 || .276 || 150 || 4.82 || '''Lost''' wild card vs. KT Wiz (0–2) || Kim Taek-yeon (ROTY) |- |2025 || KBO || 9 || 9/10 || 144 || 61 || 77 || 6 || .442 || .262 || 102 || 4.30 || {{Sort|9|''Did not qualify''}} || |}

==Team== === Current roster === {{Doosan Bears roster navbox|state=expanded}}

=== Retired numbers ===

The Bears have retired numbers 21 and 54. The number 21 is retired in honour of pitcher Park Chul-soon,<ref name="bears">{{cite news|url=http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/ATR/SI_EN_3_6.jsp?gotoPage=38&cid=1393468&out_service=|access-date=29 December 2016|publisher=english.visitkorea.or.kr|title=Sports in Korea Korean Pro Baseball|date=4 March 2014|archive-date=13 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413091016/http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/error_404_enu.jsp|url-status=dead}}</ref> who won the KBO League Most Valuable Player Award, the Pitching Triple Crown, and the Korean Series Most Valuable Player Award in 1982. The number 54 is in memory of catcher Kim Young-shin, who committed suicide while still a young player.<ref>{{cite web |title=Retired number |url=https://www.donga.com/en/article/all/20170710/986694/1/Retired-number |website=The Dong-a Ilbo |access-date=22 February 2022 |date=10 July 2017}}</ref>

=== Managers === [[File:Jamsil_Baseball_Stadium_panorama_(April_28_2017).jpg|thumb|300px|Jamsil Baseball Stadium, home field of the Doosan Bears and the LG Twins]] {| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;font-size: small;" |- style="background:#efefef;" !Number !!Name !!Tenure !!Honours |- |1||Kim Yeong-duk||15 January 1982 – 8 August 1982||1982 Korean Series |- |2||Kim Sung-keun||24 December 1983 – 8 September 1988|| |- |3||Lee Kwang-hwan||9 September 1988 – 19 June 1990|| |- |4||Lee Jae-won||19 June 1990 – 11 July 1991|| |- |5||Yun Dong-kyun|||9 September 1991 – 1994|| |- |6||Kim Yin-sik||21 September 1994 – 2003||1995 Korean Series 2001 Korean Series |- |7||Kim Kyung-moon||10 October 2003 – 13 June 2011|| |- |Acting||Kim Kwang-soo||13 June 2011 – 9 October 2011|| |- |8||Kim Jin-wook||9 October 2011 – 27 November 2013|| |- |9||Song Il-soo||27 November 2013 – 21 October 2014|| |- |10||Kim Tae-hyoung<ref>{{cite web |title=Doosan Bears part ways with manager Kim Tae-hyoung |url=https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2022/10/11/sports/Baseball/Kim-Taehyoung-Doosan-Bears-KBO/20221011135833410.html |website=Korea JoongAng Daily |access-date=14 October 2022 |date=11 October 2022}}</ref>||21 October 2014 – 11 October 2022||2015 Korean Series 2016 Korean Series 2019 Korean Series |- |11||Lee Seung-yuop<ref>{{cite web |title=KBO's all-time home run king Lee Seung-yuop named Doosan Bears manager |url=https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20221014000423 |website=The Korea Herald|access-date=14 October 2022 |date=14 October 2022}}</ref>||14 October 2022 – 2 June 2025|| |- |Acting||Cho Sung-hwan||3 June 2025 – 19 October 2025|| |- |12||Kim Won-hyong<ref>{{cite web |title=Doosan's Kim Won-hyong Urges Re-signing Five Key Free Agents |url=https://www.chosun.com/english/sports-en/2025/10/23/HYIJAKZBKRC55FTAFIQ75CQU7E/ |website=The Chosun Daily |access-date=2 November 2025 |date=23 October 2025}}</ref>||20 October 2025 – present || |- |}

==References== ;General *{{cite web |url=http://www.koreabaseball.com/TeamRank/TeamRank.aspx |title=Complete league history and statistics |publisher=Korean Baseball League |access-date=8 September 2017 |language=ko }} ;Specific {{reflist}}

== External links == {{commons category|Doosan Bears}} * [https://www.doosanbears.com/ Official website] {{in lang|ko}}

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