Spring Training in Bradenton and Sarasota

Spring Training in Bradenton and Sarasota

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Publication Date: 18th March 2013

McKechnie Field in Bradenton, Florida, is the oldest active major-league spring-training facility in the country. Opened in the spring of 1923 with Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis in attendance, it has played host to six different major-league teams, with the Pittsburgh Pirates calling it home since 1969. The New York Giants traveled to Sarasota in 1924 as the first of five teams to venture to its confines. These two cities, both situated on the Gulf Coast of Florida, boast nearly a century of baseball history and have seen the game's all-time greats.
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McKechnie Field in Bradenton, Florida, is the oldest active major-league spring-training facility in the country. Opened in the spring of 1923 with Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis in attendance, it has played host to six different major-league teams, with the Pittsburgh Pirates calling it home since 1969. The New York Giants traveled to Sarasota in 1924 as the first of five teams to venture to its confines. These two cities, both situated on the Gulf Coast of Florida, boast nearly a century of baseball history and have seen the game's all-time greats.
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McKechnie Field in Bradenton, Florida, is the oldest active major-league spring-training facility in the country. Opened in the spring of 1923 with Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis in attendance, it has played host to six different major-league teams, with the Pittsburgh Pirates calling it home since 1969. The New York Giants traveled to Sarasota in 1924 as the first of five teams to venture to its confines. These two cities, both situated on the Gulf Coast of Florida, boast nearly a century of baseball history and have seen the game's all-time greats.
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  • Pages: 128
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
  • Imprint: Arcadia Publishing
  • Series: Images of Baseball
  • Publication Date: 18th March 2013
  • State: Florida
  • Illustration Note: Black and White
  • ISBN: 9780738598680
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Sports
    TRAVEL / Special Interest / Sports
    SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Author Bio
With stunning photographs, many never seen before, historian Raymond Sinibaldi, author of John F. Kennedy in New England, John F. Kennedy: From Florida to the Moon, and Jackie's Newport, America's First Lady and the City by the Sea, unveils the riveting tale of John F. Kennedy's final days and final rest at Arlington.
McKechnie Field in Bradenton, Florida, is the oldest active major-league spring-training facility in the country. Opened in the spring of 1923 with Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis in attendance, it has played host to six different major-league teams, with the Pittsburgh Pirates calling it home since 1969. The New York Giants traveled to Sarasota in 1924 as the first of five teams to venture to its confines. These two cities, both situated on the Gulf Coast of Florida, boast nearly a century of baseball history and have seen the game's all-time greats.
  • Pages: 128
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
  • Imprint: Arcadia Publishing
  • Series: Images of Baseball
  • Publication Date: 18th March 2013
  • State: Florida
  • Illustrations Note: Black and White
  • ISBN: 9780738598680
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Sports
    TRAVEL / Special Interest / Sports
    SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
With stunning photographs, many never seen before, historian Raymond Sinibaldi, author of John F. Kennedy in New England, John F. Kennedy: From Florida to the Moon, and Jackie's Newport, America's First Lady and the City by the Sea, unveils the riveting tale of John F. Kennedy's final days and final rest at Arlington.