Sapporo Maruyama Baseball Stadium (札幌市円山球場), is a baseball stadium in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. The stadium holds 25,000 people, was built in 1934 and is currently used for high-school and amateur baseball games.
It is located at the Maruyama Sports complex, next to the Sapporo Maruyama Athletics Stadium, going uphill within the Maruyama Park.
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