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Pesäkarhut

Finnish pesäpallo club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ11888657 ↗
Source-derived summary

Porin Pesäkarhut (lit. "Pori Basebears") are a women's pesäpallo club based in Pori, Finland, that plays in the top-tier of Finland, the Superpesis. The club was established in 1985. They play in the Pori Pesäpallo Stadium. They have won the Finnish Championship three times, in 2002, in 2021 and in 2023.

Club achievements

During its history, the club has won 18 medals in the women's Superpesis. Three of these are gold (2002, 2021 and 2023), six are silver (2005, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2017 and 2019) and ten are bronze (2001, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018) and 2020). Pesäkarhut have won the Halli-SM, a winter pesäpallo tournament, in 2002, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2017, 2018 and 2019.

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The public source identifies “Pesäkarhut” as finnish pesäpallo club. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Pesäkarhut, Finnish and pesäpallo.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 2002, 2021, 2023—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1985. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Pesäkarhut, Finnish and pesäpallo providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Pesäkarhut” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.