Eduardo Vasconcelos Stadium, also known as Estadio de Béisbol Lic. Eduardo Vasconcelos, is a stadium in

Oaxaca, Oaxaca Oaxaca de Juárez (), also Oaxaca City or simply Oaxaca (Valley Zapotec: ''Ndua''), is the capital and largest city of the eponymous Mexican state Oaxaca. It is the municipal seat for the surrounding Municipality of Oaxaca. It is in the Centro ...

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. It is primarily used for

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, and is the home field of the

Guerreros de Oaxaca The Guerreros de Oaxaca (English: Oaxaca Warriors) are a professional baseball team in the Mexican League based in Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico. Their home field is Estadio Eduardo Vasconcelos. History In October 1995, a group of businessmen, ...

Liga Mexicana de Béisbol The Mexican League (, ) is a professional baseball league based in Mexico and the oldest running professional league in the country. The league has 18 teams organized in two divisions, North and South. Teams play 114 games each season. Five te ...

baseball team since the team entered the league in 1996. It currently holds 6,011 spectators. The stadium opened in 1950 as the home for the athletics department for the

Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca Universidad (Spanish for "university") may refer to: Places * Universidad, San Juan, Puerto Rico * Universidad (Madrid) Football clubs * Universidad SC, a Guatemalan football club that represents the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala ...

. It is named after Eduardo Vasconcelos, who was

Governor of Oaxaca The governor of Oaxaca (officially in Spanish ''Gobernador Constitucional del Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca'', in English ''Constitutional Governor of the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca''), who is Alejandro Murat Hinojosa, heads the exec ...

from 1947 to 1950. The stadium's playing surface is FieldTurf. A remodeling prior to the 2008 season brought the stadium a new video board and improved seats in charge of the Mexican architectural firm Broissin architects.
Article on new additions to stadium from imparcialenlinea.com

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Stadium informationLiga Mexicana de Béisbol: Los Guerreros de Oaxaca, el debut en la liga mejicana
Sports venues in Oaxaca Sports venues completed in 1950 Guerreros de Oaxaca Mexican League ballparks 1950 establishments in Mexico {{Mexico-sports-venue-stub