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	Hiram Bithorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bithorn won nine games and lost fourteen in his first season, but he rebounded in 1943 by going 18-12 and completing 19 of his 30 starts, and leading the league in shutouts with seven, establishing a record for Puerto Rican pitchers that still stands.
		Bithorn's achievement of making it to the majors remained a source of pride in Puerto Rico, and he was honored in 1962 when the biggest ballpark on the island was built and named for him.
		Hiram Bithorn Stadium is located next to Roberto Clemente Coliseum and across the street from Plaza Las Américas, and it also has hosted world championship boxing fights, the 1979 Pan-American Games, and important musical spectacles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hiram_Bithorn (412 words)

	Clem's Baseball ~ Hiram Bithorn Stadium
		This single-deck stadium has been the home of the Santurce Crabbers for many years, but there is some confusion owing to the relocation and renaming of Puerto Rican pro teams in recent years, like a game of musical chairs.
		Hiram Bithorn Stadium was named for the first Puerto Rican player ever to make it to the major leagues.
		Bithorn was a pitcher for both the Cubs and the White Sox, in the 1940s.
	www.andrewclem.com /Baseball/HiramBithornStadium.html (612 words)

	Hiram Bithorn Stadium
		Though the name of the ballpark is Hiram Bithorn Stadium over the main entrance gate, inside, under the scoreboard, the Spanish Estadio Hiram Bithorn prevails.
		Interestingly, Hiram Bithorn, the first major leaguer to hail from Puerto Rico, (who broke into the big leagues with the Cubs in 1943), is not similarly honored.
		Hiram Bithorn Stadium is the first ballpark encountered by the staff of ebaseball
	www.ebaseballparks.com /bithorn.html (376 words)

	Hiram Bithorn Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hiram Gabriel Bithorn (March 18, 1916 - January 1, 1952) was a Puerto Rican right-handed pitcher who became the first baseball player from Puerto Rico to play in the major leagues.
		Bithorn won nine games and lost fourteen in his first season, but he rebounded in 1943 going 18-12 and completing 19 of his 30 starts, and led the league in shutouts with seven, establishing a record for Puerto Rican pitchers that still stands.
		Hiram Bithorn Stadium is located next to Roberto Clemente Coliseum and across the street from Plaza las Americas, and it also has hosted world championship boxing fights, the 1979 Panamerican Games, and important musical spectacles.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Bithorn_Hiram.html (360 words)

	Hiram Bithorn
		Hiram Gabriel Sosa Bithorn was born on March 19, 1916 in Santurce, Puerto Rico.
		Hiram Bithorn led the way for more than 200 puertoricans to this date, achieve the dream of becoming a major league baseball player.
		In 1962, the largest baseball stadium in Puerto Rico was built and named Estadio Hiram Bithorn (Hiram Bithorn Stadium) in his honor.
	www.geocities.com /hirambithorn/HiramBithorn.html (348 words)

	PUERTO RICO HERALD: Hiram Bithorn Stadium Playing Like Home Run Bithorn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The small stadium with the fast artificial turf, 8-foot high fences and the wind that usually blows out to right field has easily been the best hitters' park in the majors.
		While keeping the ball down can be the answer in many ballparks, at Hiram Bithorn it's often only the difference between a homer and a double.
		Bithorn might not like playing in his own stadium, being a pitcher.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/2003/vol7n26/HiramBithorn-en.shtml (805 words)

	Clem's Baseball ~ Olympic Stadium
		The cost overruns on this part of the stadium project were so big that it was not completed until 1987, the same year I was there.
		As is/was the case in Skydome and Exhibition Stadium, the extreme oblong shape of this stadium was due to the much longer length of the gridiron in the Canadian Football League: 480 feet (160 yards) altogether, rather than 360 feet (120 yards).
		With no prospects for a new stadium, the franchise became nonviable, and its owner Jeffrey Loria was fortunate to get an opportunity to "trade in" the Expos for the Marlins after that team's owner purchased the Red Sox in early 2002.
	www.andrewclem.com /Baseball/OlympicStadium.html (1152 words)

	JS Online: Homeless shelter
		Hiram Bithorn Stadium is located in an area known as Hato Rey in the northern sector of the city, across from Plaza de las Americas, the island's showcase shopping center.
		Hiram Bithorn was a right-handed pitcher who became the first Puerto Rican-born player to make it to the major leagues.
		Bithorn served with the United States Marines for two years during World War II, and shortly after returning to pitching, developed a sore arm that prompted him to retire.
	www.jsonline.com /sports/brew/may04/230120.asp?format=print (1172 words)

	AllSports' MLB News - An In-Depth Look at Hiram Bithorn Stadium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Stadium appears to be neutral, with a slight bias towards pitching.
		Hiram Bithorn Stadium received its name from the first Puerto Rican-born player to reach the major leagues.
		Hiram Bithorn, who was a pitcher, played four seasons in the big leagues for the Cubs and the White Sox in the 1940s.
	www.allsports.com /cgi-bin/showstory.cgi?story_id=38227 (627 words)

	SI.com - Baseball - Who's Hiram Bithorn Stadium named for? - Sunday April 20, 2003 12:21 AM
		SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- As the Montreal Expos settle into their part-time home in the Caribbean, fans all over are becoming more familiar with Hiram Bithorn Stadium.
		Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Montreal pitcher Javier Vazquez was well aware of Bithorn.
		A big baseball fan from Nashville, Tenn., he was on vacation this week and visited Hiram Bithorn Stadium to watch the Atlanta Braves play the Expos.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /baseball/news/2003/04/19/hiram_bithorn_ap (654 words)

	MLB Road Trip 2001 - Montreal Game Recap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hiram Bithorn Stadium hosts 22 Expo games in 2003, but it is not really a major league ballpark.
		The stadium is located at the intersection of two highways, 18 and 23, and is next to a very large shopping mall, which makes for a lot of traffic in the area.
		Inside the stadium, there is a large concourse, but it can get crowded when the stadium is sold out.
	www.mlbroadtrip.com /english/cities/major/nle/sanjuanparke.htm (425 words)

	PUERTO RICO HERALD: Bithorn Stadium Ready For Expos… (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		San Juan Mayor Jorge Santini presented Wednesday the Hiram Bithorn Stadium as new to Montreal Expos President Tony Tavares for the 22 games that will be played in San Juan.
		These past weeks they have been here with the sole purpose of getting the stadium ready so that the Expos feel at home, and I assure you that will hold true because this is a Major League park," Tavares said.
		Among the repairs to the stadium are a new warming track, new foul posts, new preferential seating, renovated gondolas, new and bright locker rooms that include jogging machines and a whirlpool, batting tunnels, VIP area extension, grandstand installations, cleaning of the playing field, and relocating the bullpen.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/2003/vol7n15/Media2-en.shtml (1680 words)

	Baseball in Puerto Rico
		Hiram Bithorn was the first Puerto Rican to play in the majors.
		He kicked around the Caribbean after that, and was shot to death on January 1, 1952, when he was playing in the Mexican winter league.
		It is a small bandbox of a stadium, measuring 313 feet down the right field line, 315 down the left.
	www.thediamondangle.com /archive/april01/pr.html (1028 words)

	Bill's Journal Entry #32 - San Juan's Bithorn Stadium
		Stadium Summary: It’s difficult to be critical of a stadium like Estadio Hiram Bithorn, even though it clearly doesn’t measure up to many Major League standards.
		The first row starts roughly eight feet in the air, and all the bleachers are on thin tubular steel which did not look structurally adequate for the load of fans using it.
		Stadium grade: C This is not a Major League caliber park...
	www.baseballparks.com /JournalV/JournalV-0302.asp (1714 words)

	Ballparks of Baseball-The Fields of Major League Baseball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The stadium has a clamshell like appearance with the wavy white covering over the seats from right field all the way around to left field.
		The one negative to this stadium is that the game is played on artificial turf and the symmetrical stadium is relatively small with a distance of 315 feet down the lines, 360 feet in the gaps and 398 feet to dead center.
		The game on Friday April 11th was the second Major League Baseball game ever played at Hiram Bithorn Stadium (and the first for the Expos at their second home), because the Rangers and Mariners opened up the season there in 2001.
	www.ballparksofbaseball.com /hbsarticle.htm (2104 words)

	Expos to play 22 home games in Puerto Rico
		Major League Baseball announced yesterday that the Expos would play three homestands at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan starting April 11th.
		Hiram Bithorn Stadium is named after the first Puerto Rican-born player to reach the major leagues.
		Bithorn, who was a pitcher, played four seasons in the big leagues for the Cubs and the White Sox in the '40s.
	www.hispanicsurf.com /newsroom/expos_to_play_22games_in_PR-112102.htm (356 words)

	Hiram Bithorn Stadium--Paul's Major League Stadium Pages
		Their replay scoreboard was so small and distant that it was very difficult to read, which made it in some ways worse than having no replay scoreboard at all.
		Bithorn was a pitcher for the Cubs and White Sox.
		According to one account I've seen, Bithorn, because of his light skin and not-instantly-recognizable-as-Latino name, could pass more easily as white, which helped convince the Cubs to sign him.
	www.geocities.com /bigghoti/stadiumwriting/bithorn.htm (2099 words)

	Hiram Bithorn Stadium
		Known in Puerto Rico as "Estadio Hiram Bithorn", the ballpark was named for Hiram Bithorn, the first Puerto Rican to break into the major leagues (April 15, 1942 as a pitcher with the Chicago Cubs).
		However, the stadium was built as, and continues to be, a Puerto Rico Professional Baseball League (LBPPR) ballpark.
		Rendered aerial view of Hiram Bithorn Stadium courtesy of Ellerbe Becket.
	www.ballparks.com /baseball/national/hibith.htm (437 words)

	Tremendous journey through Salsa nostalgia
		An eloquent concert, that, from song to song, would remind us that the future of this genre depends on the receptivity of the contemporary artists to the drama of everyday life.
		Willie Colón and Rubén Blades perform memorable vocalizations in "Siembra: 25 Later" at Hiram Bithorn Stadium.
		Despite the erratic lecture of some of the arrangements, they reciprocated fully to the mass of humanity that bothered to remember the second shining of the 70s, an era that used it's conscience and that 25 years later, thanks to their militancy, demonstrates that it is still alive and awake.
	www.williecolon.com /Press/tremendous_journey_through_salsa.htm (608 words)

	Les Expos: August 2004
		A new stadium, you say?/Un nouveau stade, vous dites ?
		Hiram Bithorn has been even more unkind to his ERA at 6.52 over 4 games and a won-loss record of 1-2.
		Their 1120 last year was certainly aided by Hiram Bithorn, but played at about 1080 even without the Puerto Rican games.
	www.aljfkds.com /expos/2004_08_01_exposarchive.html (7486 words)

	My trip to Hiram Bithorn Stadium, San Juan Puerto Rico: January 2000
		The cab ride from the pier (in Old San Juan) to Hiram Bithorn Stadium was about $15.
		Note, both the San Juan Senators and Santurce Cangrejeros call Hiram Bithorn their home field.
		I was lucky since several of the Bucco associated players are on the visiting Ponce roster.
	home.mindspring.com /~gearhard/bithorn.html (1077 words)

	USATODAY.com - San Juan's best benefit: Visibility (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The Montreal Expos' 22 games at Hiram Bithorn Stadium are expected to pump $8 million to $10 million into the local economy, but San Juan officials say the biggest boost to the island comes from the media exposure.
		As expected, the New York Mets were a popular draw in the first four games at Hiram Bithorn, since many Puerto Ricans have ties to New York.
		With a newly adjusted capacity of close to 19,000 at Hiram Bithorn Stadium, even if the stands are three-quarters full, the Expos would draw better than the 9,048 they averaged last year at Montreal's Olympic Stadium.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/baseball/nl/expos/2003-04-17-sanjuan_x.htm (568 words)

	Welcome to meet Puerto Rico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The largest baseball stadium in Puerto Rico is located in the heart of the metropolitan area.
		This sports facility has artificial turf, private air conditioned boxes as well as fully equipped booths for media coverage, ample parking, conveniently located restrooms, and built-in concessions.
		The seating capacity for this stadium is 18,000 persons.
	www.meetpuertorico.com /search/info.asp?pkid=1398 (77 words)

	Reconnecting with America’s traditions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Baseball fans at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico, display the American Flag April 13, 2003.
		The local Puerto Rican mascot, Populaso, left, makes his major league debut as he greets the Montreal Expos mascot Youppi before the game at the Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Sunday, April 13, 2003.
		Photo credit: Tomas van Houtryve, AP Luis Gonzalez waves the Puerto Rican flag from the nearly full bleachers of the Hiram Birthorn stadium during the third New York Mets vs. Montreal Expos game of the weekend series in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Sunday April 13, 2003.
	www.talkingproud.us /Culture050603.html (1297 words)

	AllSports (tm) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I just found your story about your trip to Hiram Bithorn Stadium while on a cruise.
		You're right: he really did cut and paste your desription of the park, "a 1970's AAA..." and the description of the seats: it's word for word.
		Location of Hiram Bithorn Stadium - Dominic (March 29, 2003)
	www.allsports.com /cgi-bin/showcomments.cgi?comment_id=40489 (222 words)

	Montreal Expos will play 22 home games in PR - ROYAL ROOTERS
		For the second straight season the Montreal Expos will play 22 home games at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, the team said Thursday.
		Earlier this week, the promoter who brought the Expos to San Juan last season said the commissioner's office has agreed to give him Puerto Rican television rights for Montreal's games at Hiram Bithorn Stadium next season.
		The issue had been one of the last obstacles in negotiations to bring the Expos back to San Juan in 2004.
	www.redsoxnation.net /forums/index.php?showtopic=275 (382 words)

	ipedia.com: Wilfred Benitez Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		His stunning speed, combined with punching power and incredible ring maturity for a 15 year old, took the boxing world by storm.
		Benitez kept on winning, and in 1976, he lured the far more experienced, 2 time world champion and now member of the hall of fame Antonio Kid Pambele Cervantes of Colombia to San Juan's Hiram Bithorn stadium, to defend his world Jr Welterweight championship.
		Wilfredo won a 15 round unanimous decision, becoming the youngest boxing world champion in history, at the tender age of 17.
	www.ipedia.com /wilfred_benitez.html (900 words)

	Baseball Toaster : Mike's Baseball Rants : Uni-versed
		Of course, they were always known as the Senators and this date has the most tenuous of connections to the new Nationals.
		But then again, this is the sport that re-dubbed Estadia Hiram Bithorn the anglicized Hiram Bithorn Stadium.
		This is my site with my opinions, but I hope that, like Irish Spring, you like it, too.
	mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com /archives/160043.html (282 words)

	The Ultimate Mets Database: The Mets at Hiram Bithorn Stadium
		The Ultimate Mets Database: The Mets at Hiram Bithorn Stadium
		Mets all-time record at Hiram Bithorn Stadium: 2 wins, 5 losses
		The Ultimate Mets Database was named "Link of the Week" by John Skilton's Baseball Links in October 1999.
	www.ultimatemets.com /parks.php?ThisPark=44 (64 words)

	World Baseball Classic Blog
		Atlanta will have a total of 17 home games at Cracker Jack Stadium in March, which recently ranked as the one of the best spring training facilities in the country by Baseball America.
		Japan will play against China on March 3th, Taiwan on March 4th and Korea on March 5th at Tokyo Dome.
		The top two teams of Pool A will advance to the second round to be played in the Angel Stadium begin on March 12.
	wbcblog.com (4737 words)

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