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Here’s today’s quiz ↓
On the January 25 (Monday) broadcast of Kansai TV’s “Nep League,” what famous Nishinomiya baseball stadium did Milk Boy use in their comedy bit?（This bit originally aired on July 20, 2020）
a. Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium
b. Hanshin Koshien Stadium
c. Koshienhama Stadium
d. Korakuen Stadium
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- a.阪急西宮スタジアム18.2%(22票)
- b.阪神甲子園球場74.4%(90票)
- c.甲子園浜球場7.4%(9票)
- d.後楽園球場0%(0票)
By the way, it was also used as a quiz question on Nep League. Here it is ↓↓
Where is the National High School Baseball Championship held?This is one quiz you really can’t get wrong!
Photo of Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium（Source: Nishinomiya in the Showa Era, P75. Nostalgic Streetscapes and Shopping Streets）
The area around Koshien Station after the National Junior High School Championship Baseball Tournament, today’s National High School Baseball Championship（Source: Nishinomiya in the Showa Era, P22. The Dawn of the Showa Era and People’s Lives）
The correct answer is b. Hanshin Koshien Stadium.
#ネプリーグ
大阪出身なのに阪神甲子園球場が答えられなかったミルクボーイ駒場孝 pic.twitter.com/X1q5fFytXT— 丹羽勝弘 ファイブツアーズ ⊿ (@fivetours2005) July 20, 2020
On the January 25 broadcast of Nep League, Milk Boy’s Komaba, who is from Osaka, ended up answering “Korakuen Stadium” 😂
As his penalty, he had to perform an improvised manzai routine about “Hanshin Koshien Stadium”～(^o^)
And when you think of Milk Boy, you know the bit.
ミルクボーイの即興ネタ「阪神甲子園球場」おもしろいw
オカンが球場忘れた→特長は？→駐車場があるって言うとった→そら甲子園ちゃうわ！甲子園へはぜひ、阪神電車で！
オマリーもCMで「駐車場はありまへーん」言うてたしな#ネプリーグ— ㍍㍍すしのこ㍍㍍@6y＋1y (@0Q1v8ARhVeKcU2u) July 20, 2020
They wrapped up their Hanshin Koshien Stadium bit at the end with “There is no parking at Koshien Stadium. Please take the Hanshin Railway to Koshien!”
Since it aired nationwide, people in the Kanto area may have wondered what was so funny, but
“There ain’t no parking at Koshien Stadium” made me remember that old O’Malley commercial and crack up～😁
Finally
After the improvised manzai, they introduced some history related to Koshien Stadium.
Apparently, because Koshien Stadium was originally built where a river used to flow, the drainage was absolutely terrible, and they used an outrageous method to dry out all the water that collected on the field.
Believe it or not, until around the late 1940s and early 1950s, they would apparently pour gasoline around the stadium and set it on fire to dry it out～😆 So bold it’s shocking.
Maybe this should’ve been the quiz instead?
