One of the landmarks of Metropolis is its state-of-the-art sports stadium. This structure, constructed in 1940 on both Earths One and Two, was where the city's professional football team the Metropolis Meteors played. And it has been the focal point of a few epic struggles involving this metropolitan area's most famous resident, Superman, and his adversaries.
Quarterback Steve Lombard sought assistance for his injured knee before a key game. Scientist Frederic Fowe used his ultra-violet healing ray, powered by solar energy, to restore Lombard's knee to normal. However, this caused the adverse effect of creating an ultra-competitive and highly dangerous energy twin, which Superman had to battle at Star Stadium. Apparently, this was the original name of the stadium on Earth-One, at least until this adventure in 1973.
By 1981, Star Stadium was renamed Metropolis Stadium, and was the designated site where the Kryptonite-powered villain known as Atoman challenged Superman to a duel to the death. However, Atoman announced that in fact he wanted this battle to take place at Sportsman Stadium, which Superman and others deduced was actually the now renamed Metropolis Stadium. Batman placed the pieces of this puzzle together, and deduced that Atoman was not from the world of the Justice League... but rather from the parallel planet of the Justice Society.
During their clash, Superman vibrated he and Atoman from the Earth-One reality, bringing them both to Earth-Two where a suddenly depowered Atoman was quickly subdued. Apparently in 1940, this stadium's proposed names included Sportsman, which wasn't used.
While on Earth-One the aforementioned Star Stadium was renamed Metropolis Stadium, on Earth-Two it was initially named Sportsman Stadium, at least until the mid-1940's when Atoman and the golden age Superman first dueled. Following this, it was renamed Metropolis Stadium as evident in a 1951 case. At that time, Superman and his wife Lois Lane Kent encountered the supervillains Harlequin and Sportsmaster, assisting Green Lantern in capturing the latter criminal. Apparently by 1981, it was renamed Sportsman Stadium by 1981, when Atoman finally reunited with his old foe, the original Superman of Earth-Two!
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