Tag: Coffee Pot
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Coffee Pot Ballpark, Part 5
Rickey Builds a Modern Field The Snell and Hamlett Company fulfills their obligations for the property in short order. The trees and stumps are removed, holes filled and the property is leveled. Rickey draws up his ideal design and sends the St. Louis ballparks head groundskeeper, Sam Barnes, to handle the development of the playing…
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Coffee Pot Ballpark, Part 3
The Browns are coming! 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…
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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…