Cuesta-Rey Cigar bar and baseball

In Pittsburgh, fans are also eating it up. The Montecristo Club came to be because of a huge group of cigar-smoking fans that continually gathered on one of the concourses. Noticing how much they loved their cigars -- and the Pirates -- the team brokered a deal with Altadis U.S.A. when space in the ballpark became available. "

PNC couldn't be better for watching baseball," says Jeff Weber, a lifelong Bucs fan and a cigar smoker who makes it to about a dozen ballgames at PNC each season. "But adding a place to enjoy a cigar before and after the game did just that."Inside the Cuesta-Rey Cigar Bar at Tropicana Field.

Inside the Cuesta-Rey Cigar Bar at Tropicana Field.

In the meantime, enjoy those cigars wherever you may be enjoying a game: the stadium parking lot, the front porch or, if you're lucky, the Camacho Cigar Bar, the Montecristo Club or the Cuesta-Rey Cigar Bar. And let us know where you smoke when it comes to attending a professional sports game, whether it's baseball, basketball, football or hockey. All we cigar smokers want to know. We need to know. Just like I need the All-Star break to be over so I can get back to feeling normal again.

...enjoying a cigar while enjoying a baseball game...need I say more

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Baseball and a cigar is most relaxing

There are few nights when I don't sit on my porch, light up a cigar and tune into the Mets, but to be able to go to Shea Stadium (or the new park scheduled to open in a few years) and enjoy a cigar with other Mets fans? It's too good to be true in this dead-ball era of public cigar smoking.

But not in Pittsburgh, Detroit and Tampa Bay. In these cities, the thinking is different.Christian Eiroa (right) with Duane McLean of the Detroit Tigers at the entrance to the Camacho Cigar Bar."

Baseball is a relaxing sport," says Duane McLean, the senior vice president of business operations at Comerica Park and a cigar smoker. "Enjoying a cigar and a drink goes along with that." He adds, "We want fans to have a well-rounded experience when they come to the ballpark, and cigars reach out to another segment of our fan base." Of course, those fans couldn't be happier. During its grand opening in June, the Camacho Cigar Bar was filled with cigar-smoking Tigers fans enjoying one another's company, as well as the ballgame.

Christian Eiroa (right) with Duane McLean of the Detroit Tigers at the entrance to the Camacho Cigar Bar.

...Cigar bars for baseball fans is a great idea...

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Cigar Bars and Baseball

What's also exciting, at least from a cigar smoker's standpoint, is the recent influx of cigar bars into Major League ballparks. OK, so it's only been two, but isn't that a start?

In April, PNC Park, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates and host of this year's All-Star Game, opened the Montecristo Club. Then in June, Christian Eiroa and Camacho Cigars struck a deal with the Detroit Tigers to open the Camacho Cigar Bar at Comerica Park. They join the Cuesta-Rey Cigar Bar at Tropicana Field, which has been accommodating cigar-smoking Devil Rays fans since 1998, as the only full-blown cigar bars in the majors. Could this be a trend? If so, what a trend it would be.

There are few nights when I don't sit on my porch, light up a cigar and tune into the Mets, but to be able to go to Shea Stadium (or the new park scheduled to open in a few years) and enjoy a cigar with other Mets fans? It's too good to be true in this dead-ball era of public cigar smoking.

Inside the Montecristo Club at PNC Park.

...cigar bars and baseball. what an ideal mix...

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I Need Baseball -- and a Cigar

By Mike Marsh

Every year around this time I suffer through some pretty serious withdrawal symptoms. Truth be told, I'm in pain at this moment: cold sweats, uncontrollable tremors and acute cravings. Man alive, the cravings.

No, it's not from lack of cigars. Like any hard-core hardball fan, I've been on a three-month baseball bender since the first pitch of the season back in April -- watching or listening to my beloved Mets and any other game that happens to be on. ESPN's "Baseball Tonight" has been a sleep aid and the previous night's box scores and the day's pitching form a morning fix. The thirst is insatiable. I can't seem to get enough.

...baseball, a cigar and a drink...ideal

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The mandatory cigar is called for

Sometimes life does have those movie moments when everything works out perfectly.

On the afternoon of June 24, Steve Corr, a retired police captain from Lexington, was playing the second day in the two-day member-guest tournament at the Lexington Country Club.

At around 3:30 p.m., Corr was at the 17th hole when he shot a hole-in-one. "I've never had a hole-in-one," before said Corr.

Corr and his partner, Steve Thompson, celebrated Corr's shot all the way to the 18th hole. When they arrived, several staff members were at the hole waiting. Thinking they had just heard about his perfect shot, Corr thanked them for coming out. It was then he learned they had a completely different message.

Minutes before, while Corr was sinking his great shot, Corr's wife had called the club house with a message for her husband: Their daughter had just given birth to their first granddaughter.

Corr and Thompson went on to win their match and the title in their bracket. With much to celebrate, all went to clubhouse for some drinks and the mandatory cigars.

...what a celebration! a double eagle with hole-in-one and a new birth

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