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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
A Grapefruit League spring training game between the Dodgers and the Baltimore Orioles at Holman Stadium in 1994. The then-Brooklyn Dodgers were one of the first major league baseball teams to conduct spring training in Florida, establishing their operations in this quiet beachside town in 1948. Previously an abandoned Naval base, the complex ...
Florida Marlins (1993) Still standing Coffee Pot Park (a.k.a. Sunshine Park) 1914 1928 St. Petersburg, Florida: 850 St. Louis Browns (1914) Philadelphia Phillies (1915–18) Demolished (became private housing) Connie Mack Field: 1924 1992 West Palm Beach, Florida: 3,500 St. Louis Browns (1928–36) Philadelphia Athletics/Kansas City Athletics ...
A 1994 Grapefruit League game at the LA Dodgers' former camp of Holman Stadium in Vero Beach, Florida. Spring training, also called Spring Camp [1] [2] [3] is the preseason of the Summer Professional Baseball Leagues, such as Major League Baseball (MLB), a series of practices and exhibition games preceding the start of the regular season.
Cocoa Expo Sports Center was built and opened in 1964 by the city of Cocoa as the spring training home for Major League Baseball's Houston Colt .45s. The ballpark was dedicated on March 15, 1964 prior to its first spring training game which the Colt .45s lost 6-2 to the Philadelphia Phillies before 3,245 fans.
The Rays opened Spring Training at the renovated stadium on February 14, 2009. They lost their first Spring Training game to the Cincinnati Reds on February 25, 7–0. Their first Spring Training home win came on February 27, a 12–4 win over the Boston Red Sox. On February 3, 2010, the Rays announced a naming rights deal with The Mosaic Company.
In 1998, it replaced Plant City Stadium as the spring training home of the Cincinnati Reds. The Reds remained at the facility through 2008. After Cincinnati's club moved its spring activities to Arizona, Ed Smith Stadium spent a year without major league Spring Training. [2] The Orioles became the stadium's tenant and operator in 2010. [3]
Roger Dean Stadium is one of only two stadiums in Florida to host two Major League Baseball teams annually for spring training: the Miami Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals (the other is The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches, which opened in 2017, hosting the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros). In both venues, the teams share the main stadium ...