Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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
for Spring training City Capacity (at closing) Occupants Status 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
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.
USSSA Space Coast Complex is a baseball stadium and 13 diamond multi-sports facility in Viera, Florida, owned by Brevard County, Florida.Under its original name, Space Coast Stadium, it served as the spring training facility for the Florida Marlins (1994–2002), Montreal Expos (2003–2004), and Washington Nationals (2005–2016) and as the home field of the Brevard County Manatees (1994–2016).
The stadium was built as a spring training ballpark for Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics in 1925. The park was the spring training home of the Philadelphia Athletics from 1925 until 1936, and the Cleveland Indians from 1940 until 1942. It was also the home of the minor league Fort Myers Palms in 1926. The stadium remained in its 1925 ...
The team responded by building a new facility in nearby Plant City, Florida. The 1987 season was the last in which the Cincinnati Reds held spring training in Tampa and the Tampa Tarpons were a Reds minor league affiliate. The Tampa Tarpons reached an affiliation agreement with the Chicago White Sox for the 1988 season.
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 ...
Huggins-Stengel Field (formerly known as Crescent Lake Field or Miller Huggins Field) is a baseball field located within Crescent Lake Park in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. It was originally constructed in 1925 as a Spring Training practice field for the New York Yankees and later hosted the New York Mets and Baltimore Orioles. The ...