Estadio Beto Avila
Cancun, QR
Review by Mike
Beto Avila Stadium is the home of Los Tigres de Quintana Roo of the Mexican Baseball League. The current stadium opened in 2007 on the site of an older, circa-1980s stadium that was damaged in a hurricane in 2005. The Tigres re-settled in Cancun with the opening of the new ballpark after playing in several Mexican cities since 1955.
Seating just under 10,000, this is a nice-looking ballpark, with the seats spelling out TIGRES behind home plate and colored to resembled tiger stripes down the baselines. There are suites and a press box structure behind the plate that also serve to shade the concourse. A good-looking scoreboard sits in left-centerfield and there are sets of bleacher seats beyond the fence in left-field and right-field.
Grass berms down both lines provide additional capacity and a pair of covered standing areas are behind the seating behind 1st and 3rd base. When I stopped by on a March afternoon, the Tigres were preparing for spring training. A very nice fellow at the gate was not able to give me full access to the stadium, but he did lead me inside onto the warning track for a peek and some time to snap these photos. The field was in beautiful condition and the whole place had a sharp, clean look about it.
The stadium is named for Mexican baseball legend Beto Avila, a star for the Cleveland Indians in the 1950s. The ballpark is downtown, away from the hotel tourist zone, right next to a Walmart, of all things. I hope to get back someday and experience a Mexican League game, which I’ve heard features very engaged and excited crowds.
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