Osaka Stadium

Demolished stadium in Japan

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Japanese. (August 2014) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the Japanese article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 3,691 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Japanese Wikipedia article at [[:ja:大阪スタヂアム]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|ja|大阪スタヂアム}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Osaka Stadium
Construction


Location	Naniwa-ku, Osaka, Japan
Owner	Osaka Stadium Corporation
Capacity	31,379
Field size	Left and Right Field – 91.5 m Left and Right Center – 109.7 m Center Field – 115.8 m Backstop – 18.3 m
Surface	Grass
Broke ground	9 January 1950; 74 years ago (1950-01-09)
Built	January 1950; 74 years ago (1950-01)
Opened	12 September 1950; 73 years ago (1950-09-12)
Closed	November 1998; 25 years ago (1998-11)
Demolished	2000; 24 years ago (2000)
Architect	Junzo Sakakura
Tenants
Nankai Hawks (1950–1988) Kintetsu Pearls (1950–1957) Yosho Robbins (1953–1954)

Osaka Stadium (Japanese: 大阪球場), owned by Osaka Stadium Corporation (大阪スダヂアム興業株式会社), was a stadium in Naniwa-ku, Osaka, Japan.^[1] It opened in 1950, with a capacity of 32,000 people. It was built over the site of a red-brick tobacco plant which was destroyed during the bombing of Osaka during World War II. The stadium was torn down in 1998 and was replaced by the office and shopping complex of Namba Parks in several stages, with final construction ending in April 2007.^{[citation needed]}

The stadium was primarily used for baseball and was home of the Nankai Hawks until they moved to the Heiwadai Stadium in Fukuoka (subsequently becoming the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks, and are now the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks) in 1988.^{[citation needed]}

Madonna kicked off her Who's That Girl World Tour at the stadium with two sold-out concerts on June 14 and 15, 1987. They were her first concerts in Japan.^{[citation needed]}

Michael Jackson concluded the first leg of his Bad World Tour at the stadium, with three consecutive sold-out shows on October 10–12, 1987.^{[citation needed]}

Gallery

Osaka stadium in 1985 from air, taken by MLIT.
Osaka stadium in 1988, (Taken from the right field)
Scoreboard and backstand from the left field in 1989.

References

^ Niehaus, Andreas; Tagsold, Christian, eds. (2013). Sport, Memory and Nationhood in Japan: Remembering the Glory Days. Taylor & Francis. p. 89. ISBN 9781135712167.

Seasons (73)
1950s	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1960s	1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
1970s	1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1980s	1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990s	1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000s	2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2010s	2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
2020s	2020 2021 2022

Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks

Established in 1938
Formerly the Nankai Club, the Kinki Nippon Club, the Kinki Great Ring, the Nankai Hawks, and the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks
Based in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture

The Franchise

History
Seasons
Records
Players
Managers

Ballparks

Sakai Ohama Stadium
Nankai Nakamozu Stadium
Koshien Stadium
Osaka Stadium
Heiwadai Stadium
Fukuoka PayPay Dome

Honored numbers

Key personnel

Owner: Masayoshi Son
Management: SoftBank Group
Chairman: Sadaharu Oh
General manger: Sugihiko Mikasa
Executive officer: Tomohiro Nagai
Manager: Hiroki Kokubo

Japanese Baseball League championships (2)

1946
1948

Japan Series championships (11)

Pacific League championships (19)

Playoff berths (18)

Culture

Izayuke Wakataka Army Corps

Seasons (83)
1930s	1930 · 1931 · 1932 · 1933 · 1934 · 1935 · 1936 · 1937 · 1938 1939
1940s	1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
1950s	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1960s	1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
1970s	1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1980s	1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990s	1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000s	2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2010s	2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
2020s	2020 2021 2022

Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes

Established in 1949
Merged in 2004
Formerly the Kintetsu Pearls, the Kintetsu Buffalo, and the Kintetsu Buffaloes
Based in Osaka, Osaka Prefecture

The Franchise

Kintetsu Railway
History
Seasons
Records
Players
Managers

Ballparks

Retired numbers

Pacific League championships (4)

Playoff berths (3)

1975
1979
1980

Seasons (55)
1950s	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1960s	1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
1970s	1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1980s	1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990s	1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000s	2000 2001 2002 2003 2004