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Osaka Stadium

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Surface
  
Grass

Built
  
January 1950

Capacity
  
31,379

Architect
  
Junzo Sakakura

Broke ground
  
January 9, 1950

Opened
  
12 September 1950

Demolished
  
2000

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Location
  
Owner
  
Osaka Stadium Corporation

Field size
  
Left and Right Field – 91.5 mLeft and Right Center – 109.7 mCenter Field – 115.8 mBackstop – 18.3 m

Similar
  
Fujiidera Stadium, Heiwadai Stadium, Korakuen Stadium, Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium, Nippon Life Stadium

Osaka Stadium (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 located in Naniwa-ku, Osaka, Japan. The stadium 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 entirely replaced by the office and shopping complex of Namba Parks in several stages, with final construction ending in April 2007.

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It was primarily used for baseball and was home of the Nankai Hawks until they moved to the Heiwadai Stadium in 1988.

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Madonna kicked off her Who's That Girl World Tour at the stadium with two sold-out concerts taking place on June 14 and 15,1987. These were Madonna´s first concerts in Japan.

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Michael Jackson concluded the 1st leg of his Bad World Tour at the stadium, with three consecutive sold-out shows, on October 10–12, 1987.

References

Osaka Stadium Wikipedia


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