Some newspapers once conducted a survey among Nippon Professional Baseball players, asking "Which stadium do you dislike the most as an opponent?"—Surprisingly, more than half of the players chose Koshien as their answer, especially the players from the Giant Team.
This Holy Land of high school baseball, a place countless hearts yearn for, ironically becomes a place professional players avoid. So what causes this phenomenon?
The answer is simple: it's the crazy fans of the Hanshin Tigers—especially the die-hard fans gathered in the right field stands of Koshien Stadium. Their passionate, loud, and strongly home-team-biased support has become a striking scene during professional baseball game days at Koshien Stadium.
