In March of that year the first domed stadium in Asia--Tokyo's 56,000-seat stadium--was completed. The local sports community, and especially baseball fans, compared it to the baseball parks in Taiwan--aging, decrepit, and exposed to the elements--and began to dream of their own domed facility. When competitive baseball first began, President Lee came out to the park.
當年的三月中旬，亞洲第一個巨蛋﹘﹘可容納五萬六千人的日本東京巨蛋落成，相對於設備老舊、折損連連，又沒有防雨設備的台北市立棒球體育場，國內體育界，特別是職棒迷亦開始嚮往巨蛋。