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Fort Myers, Florida: 8,000 Boston Red Sox (1993–2011) Still standing. Currently leased to Florida SouthWestern State College: Clearwater Athletic Field: 1923 1954 Clearwater, Florida: 3,000 Brooklyn Dodgers (1923–32, 1936–41) Cleveland Indians (1942, 1946) Philadelphia Phillies (1947–54) Demolished (became Jack Russell Stadium) Cocoa ...
The following is a list of current and former Major League Baseball spring training cities. Some Toronto Blue Jays regular-season home games for 2021 were played in TD Ballpark in Dunedin, Florida. Current cities
Tampa was the first spring training site in Florida, beginning in 1913 with the Chicago Cubs. [11] In the ensuing decades, the city hosted several different Major League Baseball teams for spring training and was home to several different minor league squads during the summer, first at Plant Field near downtown and later at Al Lopez Field near West Tampa.
The economy of the state was important, but more and more teams, as baseball expanded, relocated to Arizona for spring training, where there were not that many stringent Jim Crow laws to contend with.
Of these, 120 teams in 11 leagues (from Triple-A to Single-A) are each affiliated with one MLB team through a standardized professional development license. Additionally, three leagues consisting of a total of 85 Rookie teams are located at MLB spring training complexes in Arizona and Florida, as well as in the Dominican Republic. [1]
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The Carpenter Complex is a complex of four baseball fields, training facilities, and offices in Clearwater, Florida.It opened as Carpenter Field in 1967. It is the Florida home of the Philadelphia Phillies baseball operations, spring training site for the Phillies’ minor league players, home to the Florida Complex League Phillies, and adjacent to BayCare Ballpark, spring training home of the ...
The Florida Complex League (FCL) is a rookie-level Minor League Baseball league that operates in Florida, United States. Before 2021, it was known as the Gulf Coast League ( GCL ). Together with the Arizona Complex League (ACL), it forms the lowest rung on the North American minor-league ladder.