Tigers Koshien Stadium #1 Alps Traditional Cache
Tigers Koshien Stadium #1 Alps
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Cache placed Koshien Stadium.
Hanshin Koshien Stadium is a baseball park located near Kobe in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. The stadium was built to host the national high school baseball tournaments, and opened on April 1, 1924. It was the largest stadium in Asia at the time it was completed, with a capacity of 55,000.
The name Koshien (???) comes from the Sexagenary cycle system. The year of the stadium's founding, 1924, was the first year koshi (??) in the cycle. The design of the stadium was heavily influenced by the Polo Grounds in New York City. In 1936 it became the home stadium for the Osaka Tigers (current Hanshin Tigers), now with the Central League. On February 14, 1964, the name of the baseball park changed from Koshien Stadium to Hanshin Koshien Stadium.
In addition to the annual National High School Baseball Championship, played in August, the stadium hosts the annual National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament in March, a smaller, invitational tournament. Both tournaments are generally known simply as Koshien. The high school tournaments are given a higher priority, with any tournament games that need to be rescheduled forcing the Tigers to postpone conflicting home games.
Legendary home run hitter Babe Ruth played an exhibition game at Koshien on his Japan tour in 1934. There is a plaque at the stadium commemorating the event.
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Cache is near #1 Alps seat entrance.
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