Estadio Once de Noviembre Abel Leal Díaz[1] is a baseball stadium in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. It currently serves as the home of the Tigres de Cartagena of Colombia's professional baseball league. The stadium has a seating capacity of 12,500 people.[1]
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| Location | Cartagena de Indias, Colombia |
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| Owner | Distrito de Cartagena |
| Operator | Instituto Distrital de Deportes y Recreación de Cartagena de Indias - IDER. |
| Capacity | 12,500 |
| Construction | |
| Built | 1947 |
| Opened | 1947 |
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The stadium hosted the Amateur World Series tournaments of 1947, 1965, and 1970, as well as the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games.[1] In 2019, the stadium was renamed in honor of Abel Leal Díaz, nicknamed "El Tigre," who played in Colombia's amateur circuit in the 1960s and '70s.[2]
The condition of the stadium has deteriorated in recent years, forcing Tigres to play their 2023–24 season at the Estadio Édgar Rentería in Barranquilla.[3][4]
Design
editAccording to American architectural historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock, this is one of the most striking examples in the world of cantilevered shell vaulting. The team of architects of Alvaro Ortega, Gabriel Solano, Jorge Gaitan Cortes, and Edgar Burbano had the inspired collaboration of an extraordinary designer of structures, the engineer Guillermo Gonzalez Zuleta. A pivotal project of the mid-century modernization in Colombia that brought on new construction techniques and design philosophies, Hitchcock wrote that the stadium synthesized a special moment for architecture and engineering in Colombia.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Estadio de Béisbol Once de Noviembre "Abel Leal Díaz"". IDER. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
- ^ Jose Guillermo Torres Ortiz. "ABEL LEAL DÍAZ: EL INMORTAL "TIGRE DEL BEISBOL"" (PDF). Memoria histórica del deporte cartagenero y bolivarense. ÍDOLOS DEPORTIVOS (in Spanish). IDER Cartagena: 12. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
- ^ "El estadio Abel Leal 11 de Noviembre no tuvo doliente" (in Spanish). El Universal. 6 February 2024. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
- ^ "Oscuro panorama del béisbol en Cartagena y Bolívar" (in Spanish). Eso Va Noticias. 26 May 2024. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
- ^ "ESTADIO DE BEISBOL DE CARTAGENA ,1947" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on October 7, 2019. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
Further reading
edit- Hitchcock, Henry Russell (1955). Latin American Architecture since 1945. New York: Museum of Modern Art.
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