Tag: Al Lang
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1924 Florida State League and the Advent of the Clearwater Pelicans
In 1985, the Phillies fielded a minor league team at its spring training home, Jack Russell Stadium in Clearwater, Fl. Clearwater began hosting spring training in 1923 when Charles Ebbetts brought the Brooklyn Robins to train in Clearwater while building his new winter residence in the nearby Harbor Oaks neighborhood. Brooklyn would train there for…