Hsinchu Baseball Stadium

Baseball stadium in Hsinchu, Taiwan

Hsinchu Baseball Stadium

新竹市立棒球場

Baseball Stadium front in 2022

Location| North, Hsinchu City, Taiwan
Coordinates| 24°48′23.8″N 120°57′39.4″E﻿ / ﻿24.806611°N 120.960944°E﻿ / 24.806611; 120.960944
Type| stadium
Capacity| 15,000
Field size| Left Field - 330 ft (100.584 m)
Center Field - 400 ft (121.92 m)
Right Field - 330 ft (100.584 m)
Surface| Natural turf and red clay
Construction
Opened| 27 November 1976
Renovated| 2021
Reopened| 22 July 2022
Tenants
Wei Chuan Dragons

Hsinchu Baseball Stadium (traditional Chinese: 新竹市立棒球場; simplified Chinese: 新竹市立棒球场; pinyin: Xīnzhú Shìlì Bàngqiú Chǎng) is a baseball stadium in North District, Hsinchu City, Taiwan. It hosted occasional games for Taichung Agan and Taipei Gida in the defunct Taiwan Major League. The stadium is now the ball park for Wei Chuan Dragons of the Chinese Professional Baseball League.[1]

## History

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Stadium aerial photograph after the renovation in 2022

Originally it was to be named as the Hsinchu Sadaharu Oh Baseball Stadium (Chinese: 新竹縣立王貞治棒球場), after Sadaharu Oh, the famed baseball player; however, during its construction then-President Chiang Kai-shek died, and the stadium was renamed Hsinchu Chung-Cheng Baseball Stadium (Chinese: 新竹縣立中正棒球場) in his honor.

References to Chiang were dropped after the renovation in 2022. Inaugurated on 27 November 1976, the stadium has been in use ever since. The stadium renovation commenced in 2019, and construction was estimated to finish by the end of 2021, in time for the Wei Chuan Dragons' 2022 season.[2]

## See also

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* List of stadiums in Taiwan
* Sport in Taiwan

## References

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1. ^ "Wei Chuan Dragons to Adopt Hsinchu Stadium". CPBL Stats. CPBL Stats. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
2. ^ 駿杰, 王 (19 May 2020). "中職／味全龍隊新主場來了！新竹市立棒球場OT簽約". 聯合線上公司. 聯合報. Retrieved 30 December 2020.

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* Luodong Baseball Field
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