University of Hawai'i Baseball History & Records
University of Hawai‘i Baseball History & Records (updated February 2018) RAINBOW WARRIOR BASEBALL 1 LES MURAKAMI STADIUM Record at Les Murakami Stadium 844-522-1 (.618) The stadium was first built in 1984 on the site as “the house that Les built.” Baseball playoffs, the PAL opening ceremonies, of the old UH Stadium, which sat approximately In the season that saw the three-millionth Best of the West High School tournaments, UH 2,500 fans. With the success of his teams fan enter the gates at the Les Murakami Sta- Athletics Department Fun Run, the Special in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Head Coach dium, the facility completed its most recent face Olympics and numerous baseball clinics, including Les Murakami led a charge to build a facility that lift, as all 4,312 seats were replaced. the Cal Ripken-Hideo Nomo Camp. could accommodate the droves that he foresaw. The new seats are all green instead of the HOME ATTENDANCE With the help of political backers at Washington red, orange and blue seats of before. They were Year Attendance Average Dates Sellouts Place, the state appropriated the money for implemented in the fall of 2008, giving the 1984 104,177 2,216 47 11 the project, which took less than nine months stadium a fresh new look. 1985 106,526 1,746 61 4 to complete before its debut in UH’s Feb. 17, This comes less than a year after the sur- 1986 +114,367 2,599 44 3 1984, game vs. Stanford. face got an upgrade. During the winter of 2007, 1987 105,646 2,401 44 6 Now in the 35th year of what was formerly the stadium’s AstroTurf surface was ripped away 1988 125,752 2,566 49 14 known as Rainbow Stadium, Hawai‘i has seen to make room for the new Domo Turf surface.
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