Category: Spring Training
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Coffee Pot Ballpark Part 4
Deciding on a Location Back in the winter of 2024 the chapter decided to pursue a project of putting together a trolley tour of the spring training sites that existed in Pinellas County. First, we would need to do some research. SABR’s Spring Training Research Committee seemed like a good place to start. The committee…
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Coffee Pot Ballpark, Part 2
Late 1912 The first article in the Coffee Pot series was intended to mark the beginning of the piece. Circumstances took me back a bit in history and I found some fascinating information relating to St. Pete’s quest for Spring Training baseball. This information comes primarily from the archives of the St. Petersburg Daily Times…
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Sisler Field
A Pictorial Guide Nestled in the Southern end of the Tarpon Springs community is the little league complex. It sprung out of a gender gesture. The city recruited the St. Louis Browns back to Pinellas County in 1925. (The Browns, for their part, brought hall of famer George Sisler to town as the player/manager and…
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Coffee Pot Ballpark Part 1
St. Pete Needs Quality Baseball The first article in the Coffee Pot series was intended to mark the beginning of the piece. Circumstances took me back a bit in history and I found some fascinating information relating to St. Pete’s quest for Spring Training baseball. This information comes primarily from the archives of the St.…
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Spring Training in the Region
In the Beginning… While Spring Training made it to Florida (Jacksonville) in 1888, it did not reach central and west Florida until 1913. The reason? Transportation. The East Coast teams had a choice of taking a steamer or a train to Jacksonville while inland teams could get there via train. Neither way was practical below…