This is a list of venues used for professional baseball in the region of Florida called Tampa Bay. It includes Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater and neighboring cities. The information shown is a summary of the information contained in the references listed.
(name unknown)
Occupant: Tampa, Florida State League (1892 only)
Plant Field (opened 1899) known as Pepin-Rood Stadium in final years (1971–2002)
Occupants – spring training:
Occupants – minor league and university
Location: Horse race track – on grounds east of North Boulevard and south of Cass Street.
Currently: University of Tampa athletic fields complex
(name unknown) (opened fall 1908)
Occupant: St. Petersburg Saints (1908–1911)
Location: "Northeast side of Mirror Lake". Flooded by the expanding lake in 1911. Would have been about Third Avenue North and Sixth Street North.
Symonette Field
Occupant: St. Petersburg Saints (1912–1914)
Location: "Tangerine Avenue just west of 40th Street."
Coffee Pot Park a.k.a. Sunshine Park (opened 1914)
Occupants – spring training:
Occupant – minor league:
Location: St. Petersburg – "The head of Coffee Pot Bayou" – approximately 22nd Avenue North and First Street North (the actual bayou is northeast of that site a few blocks)
Currently: Residential housing.
Moore Field
Occupant – spring training:
Occupant – minor league:
Location: St. Petersburg – "Fourth Street, Seventh Avenue South".
Clearwater Athletic Field orig. Brooklyn Field
Occupants – spring training:
Occupant – minor league (unconfirmed):
Location: Clearwater – Pennsylvania Avenue (west – third base?), Seminole Street (north – left field?), Palmetto Street (south – first base?), Greenwood Avenue (now North Martin Luther King Jr Avenue) (east – right field?) "Home plate was located on Pennsylvania Avenue, which ran south to north along the third base line, near Seminole Street. Left field ran parallel to Palmetto Street, and right field ran parallel to Greenwood Ave. The grandstand was destroyed by fire in April 1956."
Currently: North Greenwood Recreation and Aquatic Complex.
St. Petersburg Athletic Park a.k.a. Waterfront Park (opened 1923)
Occupants – spring training:
Occupant – minor league:
Location: Same as
Al Lang Field (see below)
Al Lang Stadium (opened 1947) a.k.a. Al Lang Field
Occupants – spring training
Occupants – minor league and university
Location: St. Petersburg – Second Avenue Southeast (north – home plate), Bay Shore Drive Southeast and then Tampa Bay (east – left field corner), Fourth Avenue South (south – center field), First Street Southeast (west – right field corner).
Currently: Used for soccer.
Jack Russell Memorial Stadium (1955–2003) org. Jack Russell Field
Occupants – spring training:
Occupants – minor league:
Location: Clearwater – 800 Phillies Drive (west – third base); Palmetto Street (north – left field), North Jefferson Avenue (east – right field), Seminole Street (south – first base) – one block directly east of the site of Clearwater Athletic Field.
Al Lopez Field (opened 1955)
Occupants – spring training
Occupant – minor league
Location: Tampa – Northeast quadrant of what is now the Raymond James Stadium complex.
Tropicana Field (opened 1990) previously Florida Suncoast Dome and Thunderdome
Occupant:
Location: St. Petersburg – 1 Tropicana Drive – Stadium Drive and then Interstate 175 (south), 16th Street South and then Interstate 275 (west), Pinellas Trail and then First Avenue (north), parking lots and then 10th Street South (east). Edge of complex is about 10 block straight west of Al Lang Field.
George M. Steinbrenner Field (opened 1996)
Occupant – spring training:
Occupants – minor league:
Location: Tampa – 1 Steinbrenner Drive – Immediately northwest of Raymond James Stadium complex, across North Dale Mabry Highway
Bright House Field
Occupant – spring training:
Occupant – minor league:
Location: Clearwater – 601 Old Coachman Road – Just east of where Sharky Road T's into Old Coachman Road
