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Charlotte Sports Park (formerly known as Charlotte County Stadium and Ranger Stadium) is a baseball stadium in Port Charlotte, Florida. The stadium is the home field for Tampa Bay Rays spring training operations, as well as its Rookie-class Florida Complex League Rays teams. From 2009 to 2020, it also hosted the Charlotte Stone Crabs of the ...
On April 9, 2009, with the Fort Myers Miracle as opponents, Alex Cobb threw the first pitch in Stone Crabs history. A rehabbing B. J. Upton was the first Stone Crabs batter, and Matt Fields hit a home run to lead off the second inning, laying claim to the first Stone Crabs hit, home run, and RBI. After starting the season 0–3, the franchise ...
Four teams are independently owned, while three—the Florida Complex League Rays and two Dominican Summer League Rays squads—are owned by the major league club. The Rays have been affiliated with the Triple-A Durham Bulls of the International League since 1998, making it the longest-running affiliation in the organization among teams not ...
The Tampa Bay Rays will return to Port Charlotte for spring training in 2024 after relocating this year because of extensive damage their team training facilities suffered during Hurricane Ian.
Category for players of the Charlotte Stone Crabs minor league baseball team, who have played in the Florida State League from 2009 to 2019. Pages in category ...
PORT CHARLOTTE — Baseball’s owners and players agreed — finally — to play ball this season, working through contentious negotiations and several deadlines to come to terms Thursday ...
The team plays most of their home games on field no. five of the Charlotte Sports Park complex, and also play select games in the main stadium. The team first played from 1996 to 1998 as the Gulf Coast League Devil Rays. The club struggled during their first two years, but made it to the league championship in 1998, before losing to the GCL ...
The 2022 title game, in which North Carolina beat N.C. State, drew a sellout crowd of 10,500, largest ever for a championship game.