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Contents 1 Koshien 2 Sister Team 3 Amid Anti-Foreign Sentiment? 4 Home Away from Home 5 Image of stadium 6 Kanemoto Tomoaki

[edit] Koshien

Shouldn't it be "Hanshin Koshien Stadium"? Osakadave 18:05, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Someone should make an ontology like the one that exists for the MLB teams on wikipedia, with uniform design for home and away and and bits of other important info on the top right of the page in its own box for all the Japanese pro teams. Migrations 03:16, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sister Team

"It is the sister team of the Major League baseball team Detroit Tigers and in Steven King and Stewart O'Nan's 2004 book Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season, the Tigers are often portrayed as the Japan Red Sox." I question this statement. There is no official "Sister Team" program, so this is no more than just stating that they have the same mascot. Furthermore, this does nothing to tell you anything about the team. If anything, this should be in a footnote or trivia section. I'd be content to just remove it, though. That they were mentioned in a Boston Red Sox 2004 season book? It just seems irrelevant. 24.13.141.176 05:56, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

I question it as well for exactly the same reasons. As with any unreferenced information on Wikipedia, you should feel free to delete it. I added the {{unreferenced}} template to the top, and will work on adding citations to this article over the next few months. Vir4030 19:41, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Amid Anti-Foreign Sentiment?

The article states the following: "In 1940, amid anti-foreign sentiment, the Tigers changed the name to Hanshin and in 1947 changed the name back to Ōsaka Tigers." What does this mean exactly? How did the anti-foreign sentiment cause them to change the name of the team? This needs to be more fully explained. -- Exitmoose 04:52, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Home Away from Home

I'm watching the Tigers play a "home" game right now at the Osaka Dome. I would love to understand how this is possible. Do they play a select number of games at the Dome per year? Is this at all related to the annual high school tournament currently running at Koshien Stadium? --Do Not Talk About Feitclub (contributions) 10:01, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image of stadium

Just putting this image here because I am unsure where to add into the article. We need more images of this team as well, (all Japanese teams actually) if anyone has any.--Borgarde^talk 07:44, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kanemoto Tomoaki

Though he may be zainichi, he was born and raised in Japan, and is a Japanese citizen, which more than merits him having the Japanese flag next to his name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.230.147.70 (talk) 15:31, 1 June 2008 (UTC)