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In the early 1980s, Florida had major league teams in only the NFL. Florida has since added two NBA teams in the late 1980s. Florida added two NHL teams in the 1990s as part of the NHL's expansion into the south, and two MLB teams in the 1990s. Florida's most recent major-league team, Inter Miami CF, began play in MLS in 2020, after Florida's ...
Florida has a rich baseball history and has long been home to minor league teams and spring training. In 1993, the Miami Marlins became the first Major League Baseball team to call Florida home. They won the World Series in 1997 and 2003. [7] The Tampa Bay Rays began playing in 1998 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg.
The following list contains all urban areas in the United States and Canada containing at least one team in any of the six major leagues. The number of teams in the Big Four leagues (B4) (NFL, [2] MLB, [3] NBA, [4] and NHL [5]) and the Big Six leagues (B6) (aforementioned leagues plus MLS [6] and CFL) [7] are included in the table below.
This article is a list of teams that play in the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada: Major League Baseball (MLB), Major League Soccer (MLS), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL), the National Hockey League (NHL), and the Canadian Football League (CFL).
The sport that most commonly has two teams in one metropolitan area is baseball, with multiple teams in Chicago (since 1901), New York (since 1962), and Los Angeles (since 1961). Throughout the first half of the 20th century, Boston , St. Louis , and Philadelphia also had two baseball franchises, but one team from each city moved in the 1950s ...
In December 2020, Major League Baseball announced its recognition of seven leagues within Negro league baseball as major leagues: the first and second Negro National Leagues (1920–1931 and 1933–1948), the Eastern Colored League (1923–1928), the American Negro League (1929), the East–West League (1932), the Negro Southern League (1932 ...
However, for various reasons, all these attempts to bring major league baseball to the area fell short. [12] Tampa Bay was rumored to be a front-runner when MLB expanded by two teams in 1991, but Miami and Denver were chosen instead. [13] Finally, in March 1995, St. Petersburg was awarded a major league expansion franchise along with Phoenix. [14]
Pages in category "Professional baseball teams in Florida" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.