During the week of spring training, I knew how lucky I was to be able to cover even a portion of the 2020 Spring Training Season. After everything that has gone down with the Coronavirus, I realize just how lucky I was. Being able to cover one of the last …
Read More »Best Time of My Life
I would be lying if I said it wasn’t. I got to travel to four ballparks, watch five games and see six teams. The best part happened on Thursday, March 5, when I called a Tampa Bay Rays game with Alexa Harley. It was a blast. I went all out: …
Read More »A new and improved ballpark
In 1977 Dunedin became home to the Blue Jays for spring training. Over 40 years later the Blue Jays are the only Major League franchise that still plays in their original spring training park. In 2019 construction began to renovate the park and the Blue Jays signed a 25-year lease …
Read More »A Taste of Canada
The Toronto Blue Jays have been snowbirds in the Tampa Bay area since their inaugural season in 1977. Because of the Spring Training, the team has known their spring home in Dunedin, Fla. longer than they have known their home north of the border. Little did anyone realize, the Blue …
Read More »360-degree sights help LECOM Park’s popularity soar
LECOM Park may have come in third in USA Today’s 2018 rankings of the spring training parks in the Grapefruit League, but to the hometown fans, it’s number one. The 70-degree weather Sunday afternoon at the springtime home of the Pittsburgh Pirates couldn’t have been more ideal for a ballgame. …
Read More »Dunedin Stadium: Home Away From Home
Spring Training attracts fans from not only all parts of the USA, but from other countries as well. Violet and Dave Kerr traveled from Toronto, Canada to watch the Blue Jays take on the Atlanta Braves at Dunedin Stadium. Their dedication to their team turned Spring Training into more then …
Read More »Atlanta “Braves” Out Win Over Blue Jays
Coming off a victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Atlanta Braves add another W in the column, this time over the Toronto Blue Jays. The game featured a lively crowd in Dunedin Stadium from the Blue Jays’ home stadium in Dunedin, Florida. We have a lively crowd out here today …
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