The Carps are the Hiroshima baseball team. Team colours: red and white. Team logo: "All In". This weekend I had the opportunity to go to a game in Hiroshima city to see the Carps play the Nippon Hams from Hokkaido. The Carps won! I am a fan of baseball, so I enjoyed watching the game. However the highlight of the day was to see how enthusiastic the fans get at the games! Everyone, and I mean ev-er-y-one dresses in Carps paraphernalia, or at least red and white. We're talking shirts, hats, towels, horns, ballons, bags, drinking glasses.....I had a red t-shirt, and bought a Carps baseball cap in attempts to "blend in"! On top of all the stuff were the many cheers. Everyone seemed to know when to do what cheer, and it got a full
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