著者

木原 資裕 櫛木 雄介

出版者

鳴門教育大学

雑誌

鳴門教育大学研究紀要 (ISSN:18807194)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.27, pp.370-382, 2012

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The word "Koshien" has come to mean the sacred ground which not only signifies a mere ballpark, but also the highest place where high school baseball players gather to play the game. It is said that newspapers, or what is called "the best−selling everyday media," had given a great impact to form the Koshien event till the1960s when TV sets started to spread over Japan as another influential media. It is a well−known fact that high school baseball at the Koshien has been taken up on a large scale by newspapers and TV programs since then. This study aims to clarify how differently high school baseball at Koshien is treated from other sports based on the empirical data such as the newspaper coverage areas, TV broadcasting times, and so on. The areas of sports coverage in Asahi Shimbun, the Tokushima newspaper, and Yomiuri Shimbun were measured focusing on the month of August when the High School Baseball Championship was held at Koshien, and compared to other sports events. The result shows a peculiar tendency in the difference of the treatment between All−Japan High School Baseball Championship games and the inter−high school championship games of other sports which are similar national sports events for high school students. In TV broadcasts, high school baseball at the Koshien has received exceptional treatment as well as in newspapers. These media treatments have been influencing the ardent high school baseball fans till now, and at the same time, the amount of the newspaper and TV coverage has continually increased.