| has gloss | eng: The Asahi Tigers were a Japanese-Canadian baseball team established in 1914. The team went on to great success, particularly in the 1930s, winning numerous tournaments and championships. The team was based in Vancouver's Oppenheimer Park, in the city’s Japantown. The team was disbanded due to its members being dispersed across Canada due to the Japanese Canadian internment during World War II. In June 2009, the City of Vancouver announced that it intends to remove the baseball diamond in Oppenheimer Park on which the Tigers played as part of a "renovation" of the park. All that will be left in the place of the diamond is a "commemorative backstop" to honour the team. The team was inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame in 2005. |