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Pool "B" will be played in Foro
Sol Stadium in Mexico City, Mexico
Foro Sol Stadium is located in the heart of Mexico City, one
of the largest cities in the world, home of the Red Devils, who
play in the Mexican League
This stadium has also hosted a number of other large international
baseball events, as well as the Mexican Championship
It has also hosted two Major League Baseball Spring Training
Games in its history
Carlos Hermosillo Conade, Minister of Sport
of Mexico, said: “The government of Mexico, under President
Felipe Calderón, is committed to working with the businesses
of our country to bring international events like the World Baseball
Classic to Mexico to demonstrate our hospitality, culture and
organizing capabilities
We have worked very closely with ALHÜVA Entretenimiento,
represented by the enthusiastic sports promoter Alejandro Hütt,
and Mexico City is very excited to be host of Round One games
at Foro Sol Stadium
For the enormous baseball fan base in our country, it will be
especially exciting to be able to see the Mexican National Team
filled with MLB stars compete in Mexico for the first time ever”
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Surface - Field Turf
... see below
Capacity - 26,000
Field dimensions
------------leftfield - 326 feet - 99 metres
------------centrefield - 417 feet - 127 metres
------------rightfield - 333 feet - 101 metres
Foro Sol is a sports and concerts venue built
in 1993 inside the Hermanos Rodríguez racetrack in eastern
Mexico City
It is located 10 minutes away from the Mexico City International
Airport and is operated by Grupo CIE
The venue was originally built just to be a place where to receive
big music shows, first just known as the Autódromo, and
which could accommodate up to 50,000 people
Since 2000, it has been used as a baseball stadium as well, because
the only other major baseball stadium in Mexico City (Parque
del Seguro Social, formerly Parque Delta) was demolished to build
a mall
It is home to the Diablos Rojos del México a Mexican Baseball
League team, and will host Pool B of the 2009 World Baseball
Classic from March 5 through 12, 2009
Its name comes from a popular beer brand of the Cervecería
Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma group
UPDATE ...... Sunday 8th
March 2009
The above details and photos were obtained
by searching the internet ... and it looks like the photos are
out of date ... as the infield appears to be grass
After watching the live telecasts from this Stadium, the seating
looks the same ... but there has been a noticable change ...
the infield now has astro turf !!
This was confirmed by Jon Deeble, the Australian Team Manager
After a training session on Saturday, he wrote ... "We will
be playing on astro turf and it is really fast ... also, I expect
the game (Mexico v Australia) to be high scoring ... and I am
hoping we are on the highest scoring side !!"
I will add new photos as I find them ...... and below is a shot
taken during the Australia v Mexico game on Sunday 8th March
2009
and another photo
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