Tag: 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…
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“Fast Baseball”
A term from the early years In researching the early days of baseball in St. Pete, two “must haves” were made clear; a downtown ballpark and fast baseball. I saw the term “fast baseball” from 1902 and into the 20’s, so I Googled. All of those searches included AI-generated ones talked about a hard pitch…
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MLB Players Born in the Region
The Top 10 by WAR The Tampa Bay region has been the birthplace of 195 major league players thus far. This number includes a handful of Negro League players added to the rolls this year (2024) by MLB as well as a handful from Pasco and Hernando counties. Thus far three Hall of Famers were…
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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…