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Full name | Estadio Nacional Rodney Carew |
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Former names | Estadio Nacional |
Location | Panama City, Panama ![]() |
Owner | Patronato del Estadio Nacional |
Capacity | 27,000 |
Field size | Left Field - 321 feet (98 m) Center Field - 400 feet (122 m) Right Field - 321 feet (98 m) |
Surface | Natural Grass |
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Opened | October 10, 1999 |
Construction cost | 25 million USD |
Architect | Carla Di Bello Robles |
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Panama national baseball team Panama national rugby union team Panama national football team< |
Estadio Nacional de Panama, officially the Estadio Nacional Rod Carew, [1] is a multi-purpose stadium in Panama City, Panama. The stadium has a capacity of 27,000 and was built in 1999.
It is currently used mostly for baseball matches from the national league, and Panama national baseball team matches. [2]
It has also hosted many international baseball competitions as well as many concerts and different types of events.
In 2012, Qualifiers were held at the stadium for the 2013 World Baseball Classic, featuring the national baseball teams of Panama, Brazil, Colombia, and Nicaragua
The stadium is named after Rod Carew, a Hall-of-Fame Panamanian-American baseball player.
Since 2003, there have been many plans and talks of expanding the stadium's capacity to nearly 45,000.
Some of the artists that have performed in the Estadio Nacional de Panama include Backstreet Boys, Christina Aguilera, Sting, Enrique Iglesias, Soda Stereo, and Ruben Blades.
The New York Yankees and Miami Marlins scheduled two spring training exhibition games at the ballpark on March 15 and March 16, 2014. [3]
The 2019 Caribbean Series was played at the stadium, coinciding with Panama's first appearance in the tournament since 1960.
Rodney Cline Carew is a Panamanian-American former professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a first baseman, second baseman and designated hitter from 1967 to 1985 for the Minnesota Twins and the California Angels. The most accomplished contact hitter in Twins history, he won the 1977 AL Most Valuable Player Award, setting a Twins record with a .388 batting average. Carew appeared in 18 straight All-Star Games and led the AL in hits three times, with his 239 hits in 1977 being the twelfth most in a season at the time. He won seven AL batting titles, the second most AL batting titles in history behind Ty Cobb, and on July 12, 2016, the AL batting title was renamed to the Rod Carew American League batting title.
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