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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 Lang Field: 1947 2008 St. Petersburg, Florida: 7,227 New York Yankees (1947–50, 1952–61) New York Giants (1951) [2] St. Louis Cardinals (1947–97) New York Mets (1962–87) [b] Baltimore Orioles (1991–95) [b] Tampa Bay Devil Rays/Rays (1998–2008) Still standing Al ...
City leaders decided that a new baseball-only facility would insure that Tampa could continue to host spring training and professional baseball into the future. In 1949, the city of Tampa bought 720 acres (2.9 km 2 ) of open land near West Tampa from the federal government.
Home of: Tampa, Florida State League (1892 only) Plant Field (opened 1899) known as Pepin-Rood Stadium in final years (1971–2002) Home of – spring training: Chicago Cubs – National League (1913-16) Boston Red Sox – American League (1919) Washington Senators – AL (1920s) Detroit Tigers – AL (1930s) Cincinnati Reds – NL (1930-54)
Here’s our annual guide to Yankees spring training at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Fla. as the 2024 season approaches. ... Yankees in Mexico City: ... New York Yankees pitcher Gerrit Cole points ...
Major League Baseball is getting set for 2025 spring training, with players descending on camps in Florida and Arizona in the second week of February to prepare for the new season.
Roger Dean Stadium is one of only two stadiums in Florida to host two Major League Baseball teams annually for spring training: the Miami Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals (the other is The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches, which opened in 2017, hosting the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros). In both venues, the teams share the main stadium ...
The economy of the state was important, but more and more teams, as baseball expanded, relocated to Arizona for spring training, where there were not that many stringent Jim Crow laws to contend with.