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"Spring Training Baseball in Florida – Our Roots Run Deep". floridagrapefruitleague.com. FHC Forum. Archived from the original on 2008-05-17 "Spring Training Sites for all American League Baseball Teams". baseball-almanac.com. Baseball Almanac "Spring Training Sites for all National League Baseball Teams".
Al López Field was built in 1954 and hosted its first spring training in 1955, when the Chicago White Sox moved their training site to Tampa from California. Al López became the White Sox's manager in 1957, and for the next three springs, he was the home manager in a ballpark named after himself.
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 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
The damage from Hurricane Ian cost more than $17 million to fix and forced the Rays to split workouts and spring training games between Disney World, near Orlando, and St. Petersburg in 2023.
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Tampa Bay Devil Rays/Rays (1998–2008) Still standing Al López Field: 1955 1988 Tampa, Florida: Chicago White Sox (1957–59) Cincinnati Reds (1960–87) Demolished (became Raymond James Stadium) Alex Box Stadium (a.k.a. LSU Varsity Baseball Field) 1938 2008 Baton Rouge, Louisiana: 7,760 New York Giants (1938–1939) Demolished
Probable starting pitchers in Tigers vs. Yankees: Tigers RHP Brant Hurter (0-0, 1.13 ERA in spring training) vs. Yankees RHP Cody Poteet (0-0, 2.35 ERA) Tigers lineups: TBD.