Gran Estadio del Cerro (now Estadio Latinoamericano) (Havana) | baseball park / stadium

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Estadio Latinoamericano is a baseball stadium at the Cerro neighbourbood in Havana, Cuba. It opened in 1946 with the name Estadio del Cerro as the top baseball park of Latin America with a capacity of 31,000. It was expanded in 1971 to its current capacity of 55,000.

In 1999, the stadium hosted an exhibition series between the Cuban National Team and the Baltimore Orioles.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estadio_Latinoamericano
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Coordinates:   23°7'6"N   82°22'33"W

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  • The Cuban Professional Baseball Winte League played its season here with four teams: Almendares Scorpions, Habana Lions, Marianao Tigers, and Cienfuegos Elephants. None of the games were played in any other stadium. From 1955 to 1960 the Cuban Sugar Kings AAA affiliate to the Cincinnati Reds played here as well. The Sugar Kings were a team in the International League along with Montreal, Toronto, Buffalo, Richmond, Syracuse, Miami and Columbus, OH, if my memory serves me well.
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