Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Sioux City Cornhuskers (1894–1900) Cleveland Spiders (1889–1890) St. Louis Cardinals (1900) Pittsburgh Pirates (1901–1914, 1920–1923) Detroit Tigers (1908) Brooklyn Dodgers (1917) Boston Red Sox (1920–1923) Demolished (became a parking lot for Weyerhaeuser) Baseball City Stadium: 1988 2005 Davenport, Florida: 8,000 Kansas City Royals ...
City Current team(s) Current ballpark(s) Capacity Former team(s) Bradenton: Pittsburgh Pirates (1969–present) LECOM Park [1] 6,602 St. Louis Cardinals (1923–24) Philadelphia Phillies (1925–27) Boston Red Sox (1928–29) Boston Braves/Milwaukee Braves (1928–40, 1948–61) Kansas City/Oakland Athletics (1963–68) Clearwater
During World War II, the Ponce de Leon Hotel was taken over by the federal government and was used as a Coast Guard Training Center. St. Augustine is considered to be the birthplace of the Coast Guard Reserve, as one of the first classes to graduate from Reserve officer training did so at St. Augustine in May 1941. From 1942 until the end of ...
The resort opened in 1894 as a “Gilded Age’’ Palm Beach hotel that played a significant role in transforming the area into a winter tourist paradise for the rich.
Flagler also arrived in the area after having already acquired a reputation for building grand hotels, such as the Ponce de Leon Hotel and Hotel Alcazar in St. Augustine in 1888 and 1889, respectively, and the Ormond Hotel in Ormond Beach in 1890, while also purchasing the Casa Monica Hotel in St. Augustine in 1888. [44] The Slat House, the ...
The preferred model at one time was the concept of Dodgertown, the classy spring training facility at Vero Beach, Florida. By taking the pioneering step to integrate baseball, that meant that ...
The Quintilla Geer Bruton Memorial Library is located in Plant City and was built in 1960. It is a part of the Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative but is under the jurisdiction of the City of Plant City. There are 44,000 members as of 2014. [20] Bruton Memorial Library offers programs for children, young adults, and adults.
Little League Baseball teams from the area have excelled in the Little League World Series, finishing as Runners-Up in the 1948, 1975, 1980 & 1981 Little League World Series tournaments. [4] Tampa Bay area teams have won the state Little League tournament in 1967, 1969–1975, 1977, 1980–1981, 1988–1991, 1994, 2006, 2008, 2011, and 2012. [ 5 ]