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Plant City Stadium is a stadium in Plant City, Florida with a capacity of about 6,000. It was built in 1988 as the new spring training home of the Cincinnati Reds, who had previously trained at Al Lopez Field in nearby Tampa for many years. In 1998, the Reds left Plant City for Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota. After the departure of the Reds ...
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 (1946–62) Demolished (became parking garage for Kravis Center) Compadre Stadium: 1986 1997
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
St. Petersburg Saints – Independent (1914–1919), FSL (1920–1928) Location: St. Petersburg – "The head of Coffee Pot Bayou" – approximately 22nd Avenue North and First Street North (the actual bayou is northeast of that site a few blocks) Currently: Residential housing. Moore Field Home of – spring training:
Baltimore had trained within Sarasota County previously at Twin Lakes Park in 1989 and 1990, as well as at Ed Smith in 1991—before moving to St. Petersburg and then Ft. Lauderdale for spring games. [2] From 1989 to 2009, the stadium hosted a series of Minor League Baseball teams, the Single-A Sarasota White Sox, Sarasota Red Sox, and Sarasota ...
February 5, 2014 (184 San Marco Ave. St. Augustine: 46: Sanchez Homestead: Sanchez Homestead: October 12, 2001 (7270 Old State Road 207: Elkton: 47: Sanchez Powder House Site
"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".
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 ...