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The stadium hosted its first regular season MLB games from May 15 through 17, 2007 season when the Texas Rangers played the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in a three-game series. The three games drew a total of 26,917 fans, and attendance went up each game. In April 2008, the Rays moved another series, this time against the Toronto Blue Jays, to Orlando. [9]
The Tampa Bay Rays (then the Devil Rays), an American League expansion team in 1998, assumed the Orlando Rays' major-league affiliation the following year. The Orlando Rays' last season at Tinker Field was 1999. From 2000 to 2003, the Orlando Rays played in Kissimmee, Florida, in Champion Stadium at Walt Disney World Resort.
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St. Petersburg and the Tampa Bay Rays are closing in on a groundbreaking deal: A 20-year redevelopment of the 86-acre Historic Gas Plant District, centered around a long-awaited new baseball stadium.
On January 28, 2014, during the groundbreaking of the Orlando Citrus Bowl stadium reconstruction, it was announced that the grandstands and all other extant buildings surrounding Tinker Field would be torn down. The reasons cited were that the expansion of the Orlando Citrus Bowl stadium would shorten right field of Tinker Field so much that it ...
The new Rays stadium is slated to be the $1.3 billion centerpiece of the Gas Plant District redevelopment in St. Petersburg. This story has been updated with new information The USA TODAY app gets ...
The oldest stadium is Jackie Robinson Ballpark (1914) in Daytona Beach, home of the Daytona Tortugas. The newest stadium is BayCare Ballpark (2004) in Clearwater, home of the Clearwater Threshers. One stadium was built in each of the 1910s, 1920s, 1960s, and 1980s, four in the 1990s, and one in the 2000s.
The Tampa Bay Rays are getting money to build a new ballpark — apparently whether the team wants it or not. The St. Petersburg City Council voted to approve bonds that would help fund a new $1.3 ...