Tainan Municipal Baseball Stadium

Tainan Municipal Baseball Stadium

台南市立棒球場
Location	South District, Tainan, Taiwan
Coordinates	22°58′50.11″N 120°12′20.75″E
Owner	Tainan City Government
Operator	Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions
Type	Baseball stadium
Capacity	12,000
Field size	Left Field Line - 339 ft (103.3 m) Center Field - 400 ft (121,92m) Right Field Line - 339 ft (103.3 m)
Surface	Grass
Construction
Broke ground	1930
Opened	1931
Expanded	1995
Tenants
Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions (CPBL) (1999-present)

Tainan Municipal Baseball Stadium field

The Tainan Municipal Baseball Stadium (Chinese: 台南市立棒球場; pinyin: Táinán Shìlì Bàngqiúchǎng) is a baseball stadium in South District, Tainan, Taiwan. Situated in the South District, it is currently used mostly for professional baseball games, and has been the home stadium of Uni-President Lions since 1990.

History

The stadium was built in 1931 at the site of a baseball field built during the Japanese period. The stadium underwent a series of refurbishment in the 1970s, and the light poles were installed in 1992 to enable the stadium for nighttime uses. Because the stadium is directly under the flight path of commercial airliners in and out of Tainan Airport, the building code limits the renovation that can be done to the stadium, resulting in sub-optimal placements of the light poles and support structures.

The stadium is currently under the management of the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions organization since 1999, although the ownership is retained by the Tainan City Government. Chiayi-Tainan Luka of Taiwan Major League also occasionally played its home games here during its year of existence, although never officially naming it its home stadium.

See also

• Uni-President Lions
• Chinese Professional Baseball League
• List of stadiums in Taiwan
• Sport in Taiwan