Estadio Calixto García Íñiguez is a multi-use

stadium A stadium ( : stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand o ...

Holguín Holguín () is a municipality and city in Cuba, and the capital of Province of Holguín. After Havana, Santiago de Cuba, and Camagüey, it is the fourth largest city in Cuba. History Before Columbus, the Taino people settled in huts made fr ...

Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...

. It is currently used mostly for

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding ...

games and is the home stadium of the

Sabuesos de Holguín Sabuesos de Holguín (English: Holguín Hounds) is a baseball team in the Cuban National Series. Based in eastern Holguín province, the ''Sabuesos'' have historically been a poor team, but made a surprising run in 2002 to claim their only champi ...

. The stadium holds 30,000 people. The stadium is named after Cuban patriot

Calixto García Calixto García Íñiguez (August 4, 1839 – December 11, 1898) was a Cuban general in three Cuban uprisings, part of the Cuban War for Independence: the Ten Years' War, the Little War, and the War of 1895, itself sometimes called the Cuba ...

History

The Estadio Calixto García Íñiguez was inaugurated on 10 February 1979 with a match between the local

baseball team and the Villa Clara team. The stadium hosted the

2003 Baseball World Cup The 2003 Baseball World Cup (BWC) was the 35th international Men's amateur baseball tournament. The tournament was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation, which titled it the Amateur World Series from the 1938 tournament through the ...

References

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