The Hanshin Koshien stadium completed in accordance with the 10th conference in 1924 was the 27th (41 years) in which the national convention was canceled due to worsening of the war and the 28th 46 years) has become the stage of 89 tournaments.
Masayoshi Ishikawa (Shinuri) who served in the usage section of Hanshin Electric Railway decided to blend the black soil in the inner part. Old system Akita Naka (now Akita Takashi) - Acting as a pitcher at the baseball club of Keio University, he bought the experience of traveling to the United States. When Akita Naka won second place in the 1st tournament (1915), he said he also coached his alma mater.
After that the ground was carefully maintained by the name keeper such as Fujimoto Shiichiro and Tsuji Kei Nozomi, and its know-how and spirit have been handed over to the present Hanshin Gardening. Established in September 1968, the company celebrated its 50th anniversary this year.
This year when rain did not collect during the convention, we continued to devise to prevent the dryness of the ground, such as not using a maintenance car at the end of the fifth round. Both semifinals put out maintenance cars in both games. The company's Koshien facility manager, Kenji Kanazawa said that "the sun is not strong and it is better to use a car if it is two games." That extraordinary is also a professional skill.
The holy ground of such a child has a history which became a potato field during wartime. Mr. Wu Masakazu who belonged to Chiayi Agriculture and Forestry in Taiwan and belonged to professional baseball Hanshin learned how to create fields by making full use of the techniques learned during his school days.
As for the agricultural school, the finals of Kimotsu agriculture advance to the 83rd convention since the 17th (31 years) of that Chiayi agricultural forest. = Honorifics Abbreviation (Editor, Yoshihiro Ando)