BROADCAST - Tampa Bay Rays

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2013 TAMPA BAY RAYS MEDIA GUIDE
BROADCAST
INFORMATION
Rays television broadcasters Brian Anderson (left)
and Dewayne Staats (right) greet a young fan
during Maddon’s Summer Social on July 15, 2002.
The annual event held in the Hancock Bank Club
allows 200 fans a chance to mingle with Rays
coaches, players and personalities.
PHOTOGRAPH BY
STEVEN KOVICH
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BROADCAST INFORMATION › RAYS ON TELEVISION
RAYS ON
TELEVISION
DEWAYNE STAATS
Staats began his career as a sports reporter for
WSIE Radio while a student at Southern Illinois
University at Edwardsville and began his baseball
career as the radio voice of the Oklahoma City
89ers (1973-74). In 1975-76 he was sports director at KPLR TV in St. Louis and received an Emmy
nomination. A 1975 graduate of SIU-Edwardsville,
Dewayne earned Distinguished Alumnus of the
Year honors in 1987 and was inducted into its
Alumni Hall of Fame in 2010. Dewayne was also
named a finalist for the Ford C. Frick Award, presented annually by the National Baseball Hall of
Fame, in 2012.
He and his wife, Carla, support the Quantum Leap
Farm and PACE Center for Girls Charities. He has
two daughters, Stephanie Wheeler and Alexandra,
and three grandchildren: Gabriel (8), Zachary (5)
and Evie (2).
BRIAN ANDERSON
BRIAN ENTERS his third season as full-time television color analyst alongside Dewayne
Staats on Sun Sports. It will
mark his fifth season as part
of the Rays broadcast team, after providing analysis for 50 Rays games and co-hosting the Rays
Live pregame shows with Todd Kalas in each of
his first two seasons.
Prior to joining the broadcast team, Brian
served on the major league staff as assistant
to the pitching coach where he worked under
Jim Hickey from March 2008 through the 2009
season. He also filled in as broadcaster for the
Cleveland Indians on Sports Time Ohio and hosted
a weekly highlights show while recovering from
injury in 2007.
Anderson spent 13 seasons pitching in the
majors (1993–2005) with the Angels, Indians,
Diamondbacks and Royals and was a member
of the 2001 World Champion Diamondbacks. He
was the third overall selection by the Angels in
the 1993 June Draft and the following season was
named Sporting News AL Rookie of the Year. He
was also selected by the D-backs as their first
pick in the 1997 Expansion Draft.
Brian resides in St. Petersburg and has two children, Rylyn Mae (8) and Jackson James (6).
TODD BEGINS his 16th season
with the Rays and 21st in the
major leagues. He will work all
150 telecasts on Sun Sports
in his primary role as pre- and
postgame host and in-game reporter. He has also
filled in every season with play-by-play and color
on both the Rays television and radio networks.
He previously worked on the radio broadcast
team of the New York Mets (1992-93) and the
television broadcast team of the Philadelphia
Phillies (1994-96). After graduating with a degree
in broadcast journalism from Syracuse University
in 1988, Todd began his baseball career with the
Louisville Redbirds in 1991.
Todd has worked the last 10 offseasons with
Cox Sports Television in Louisiana handling
play-by-play of college football, basketball and
baseball. He is also part of the University of South
Florida basketball radio broadcast team and fills
in as pregame host for the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Todd is the son of the late Phillies broadcaster
Harry Kalas, a 2002 Hall of Fame inductee. He is
single and resides in Tampa.
Rays on Television
TODD KALAS
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DEWAYNE ANCHORS the
Emmy Award-winning Sun
Sports telecast this year, his
37th season broadcasting major league baseball and 16th
with the Rays. Dewayne has also handled play-byplay for Fox Sports national baseball coverage. He
celebrated his 5,000th MLB broadcast in 2010.
Before joining the Rays, he spent three years
calling play-by-play for ESPN in a variety of sports,
including MLB, NCAA baseball, basketball and football. He began his major league play-by-play career
as the radio and TV voice of the Houston Astros
from 1977-84, then called radio and TV action for
the Chicago Cubs from 1985-89. He was the lead
play-by-play announcer for the New York Yankees
from 1990-94, and spent the 1994-95 seasons calling the action for The Baseball Network (ABC/NBC).
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BROADCAST INFORMATION › RAYS ON RADIO
RAYS ON
RADIO
ANDY FREED
ANDY RETURNS to the booth
for his ninth season with the
Rays broadcast team. He
joined the Rays after serving
as the voice of the Triple-A
Pawtucket Red Sox for four seasons. Freed was
also the voice of the Double-A Trenton Thunder
(Red Sox) for five seasons (1996-2000).
He began his baseball radio career as a broadcast assistant with the Orioles flagship station
WBAL conducting postgame interviews for all
home games during the 1990-93 seasons. He began his play-by-play career with the St. Lucie Mets
of the Class-A Florida State League in 1994-95.
His other play-by-play experience includes college
basketball for ESPN Regional (2004–present),
Providence College (2003-05) and Rider University
(1996-2001). He also broadcast for The College of
New Jersey football and Baltimore Spirit soccer.
Freed is a graduate of Towson State University
(Md.) where he called action for basketball, football
and lacrosse during his time at school.
Andy enthusiastically works with the ALS
Association. In addition to reciting Lou Gehrig’s famous speech at Tropicana Field every year on “ALS
Night,” he emcees various local events including
their annual “Ride to Defeat ALS.”
He and his wife, Amy, reside in Parrish, Fla., with
their daughter Sarah (10) and twins Casey and
Maddie (3).
DAVE WILLS
DAVE ENTERS his ninth season in the Rays radio booth.
He came to the Rays having
spent 11 seasons as part of
the Chicago White Sox radio
broadcast team hosting the pre- and postgame
shows and filling in the booth when necessary.
His first play-by-play action came with the Class-A
Kane County Cougars of the Midwest League from
1991-95 where he was the franchise’s first radio
voice.
Dave was also the radio voice of University of
Illinois-Chicago men’s basketball from 1997-2005
and has done some television play by play for the
Flames during the last few offseasons. He also
anchored the pre- and postgame shows for Notre
Dame football and basketball and served as cohost of the Kevin White Show while with ESPN
Radio 1000-Chicago. From 2000-2005, Dave did
television work with Comcast’s Sports Weekly high
school highlight show.
Dave served as the pitching coach/recruiting
coordinator with Elmhurst College (Ill.) in 1989 and
as interim head coach at the University of Chicago
in 1990. He owns bachelor’s degrees in speech
communication and urban studies from Elmhurst
where he played baseball for three years.
Dave participates in the Hillsborough County
Great American Teach In, and every winter, he
helps feed the homeless during Joe Maddon’s
Thanksmas. He and his wife, Elizabeth, have a son,
Alex, and a daughter, Michelle. They reside in Lutz.
NEIL SOLONDZ
NEIL BEGINS his second
season on the Rays Baseball
Network as host of the
pre- and postgame shows
as well as This Week in Rays
Baseball, an hour-long network show.
Before joining the Rays full-time, Neil was the
radio voice of the Durham Bulls from 2004–11 and
filled in on the Rays pre- and postgame show from
2010–11.
During his tenure with Durham, he broadcast the
Triple-A All-Star Game and the Triple-A National
Championship game to a nationwide audience.
Prior to his tenure with the Bulls, Solondz
broadcast minor league games for the Class-A
Lakewood BlueClaws (Phillies) and Class-A Quad
City River Bandits (Twins). He also has done freelance play-by-play of college football for ESPN3
and has worked for the North Carolina State
University, Rutgers University and Delaware State
University radio networks.
Solondz attended Rutgers, The State University
of New Jersey-New Brunswick. He and his wife,
Sari, reside in Palm Harbor with their daughters
Emily (6) and Abby (5).
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BROADCAST INFORMATION › RAYS ON SPANISH RADIO
RAYS ON
SPANISH RADIO
ENRIQUE OLIU
League. Prior to that, he was the public address
announcer for seven years for Florida College
baseball in Tampa. He also appeared as a regular
contributor on Solamente Pelota (“Only Baseball”)
on SiriusXM, has hosted his own show on WQBN
1300 AM and has appeared as a guest analyst on
USF Spanish broadcasts and on baseball broadcasts and talk shows in Managua, Nicaragua. He
has also called action for the Tampa Bay Storm
Arena Football League (2003-05) and served as
the Spanish voice for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
in 2002-03.
Oliu owns a communications degree from the
University of South Florida. He and his wife, Debbie,
reside in St. Petersburg.
RICARDO TAVERAS
RICARDO BEGINS his 11th
season calling play-by-play
on the Rays Spanish broadcast. The Dominican-born
Taveras has 27 years of
radio experience. He spent two years as a sports
commentator in the Dominican Republic and
was program director for HIVG 870 AM and HIVP
970 AM there from 1990-92. Following that, he
served as assistant program director for WRIV in
Providence, R.I., for three years.
He and his wife, Jacqueline, reside in Tampa.
RADIO AFFILIATES
WYKE 104.3 FM
Crystal River
WONN 1230 AM
Lakeland
WNLS 1270 AM
Tallahassee
WGES 680 AM
Tampa (Spanish)
WDCF 1350 AM
Dade City
WORL 660 AM
Orlando
WZHR 1400 AM
Zephyrhills
WAMA 1550 AM
Tampa (Spanish)
WENG 1530 AM/107.5 FM
Englewood
WBZW 1520 AM
Orlando
WIQR 1410 AM
Montgomery, Ala.
WFHT 1390 AM
Avon Park
WINK 1200 AM
Fort Myers
WLTG 1430 AM
Panama City
WAZL 1490 AM
Hazleton, Pa.
WWJB 1450 AM
Brooksville
WYGC 104.9 FM
Gainesville
WCCF 1580 AM
Port Charlotte
KLRG 880 AM
Little Rock, Ark.
WMEL 1300 AM
Cocoa Beach
WXJB 99.9 FM
Homosassa
WSRQ 1220 AM/106.9 FM
Sarasota
Rays on Spanish Radio
WDAE 620 AM
Tampa (Flagship)
ENRIQUE RETURNS for his
15th season as color analyst
on the Rays Spanish broadcast. In February 2009,
Enrique was inducted into the
Florida College Sports Hall of Fame for his impact
on the college and in life. He is the subject of the
award-winning 2009 documentary Henry O!, filmed
by Boston-based Rosemont Productions during the
2007 season.
Born in Nicaragua, Oliu came to the United
States at age 10 and attended the St. Augustine
School for the Blind. He called his first professional
action in 1989 for the Jacksonville Expos and then
served as color commentator for the St. Petersburg
Pelicans of the Senior Professional Baseball
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TROPICANA FIELD
& MISC.
Tropicana Field is the only major league ballpark
to feature an artificial playing surface (AstroTurf
Game Day Grass 3D-60 H) and all-dirt base paths.
In fact, the last park to use this combination was
Busch Stadium in St. Louis, from 1970-76.
PHOTOGRAPH BY
SKIP MILOS
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TROPICANA FIELD & MISC. › TROPICANA FIELD
TROPICANA
FIELD
Tropicana Field’s 1.1 million square feet include
unique design features and fan amenities found
nowhere else in the major leagues.
Ê The venue was opened to the public on
March 3, 1990, at a cost of $138 million. It
became the ThunderDome in 1993 with the
arrival of the area’s National Hockey League
expansion franchise, the Tampa Bay Lightning.
It was renamed Tropicana Field on Oct 4, 1996,
in accordance with a naming rights agreement
between the Rays and Bradenton’s Tropicana
Dole Beverages North America.
Ê The current capacity is 34,078 with a portion of
the upper deck tarped.
Ê Over 2006-07, the Rays invested more than
Ê Tropicana Field is also the world’s only profes-
sional sports facility that features live rays.
The Rays Touch Tank opened in 2006, and is
located just behind the right-center field wall.
Through a unique partnership with the Florida
Aquarium, there are over 20 cownose rays
PHOTO COURTESY OF J. MERIC/GETTY IMAGES
that fans can touch and feed throughout the
game. The 10,000-gallon tank is sponsored
by the Pinellas County Visitors Bureau and
FloridaBeaches.com and is one of the 10 largest
in the United States.
Ê Tropicana Field is the only major league park
to feature an artificial surface and all-dirt
base paths. Only four other artificial turf ballparks have ever featured all-dirt base paths:
Houston’s Astrodome (1966-71); San Francisco’s
Candlestick Park in 1971; Pittsburgh’s Three
Rivers Stadium in the early ’70s; and, most recently, St. Louis’ Busch Stadium (1970-76).
Ê The Rays were the first professional team to in-
stall the in-fill system turf in 2000 and in 2007
went with FieldTurf’s latest product featuring
a duo filament system. In 2011, AstroTurf introduced the latest in the turf market to the Trop
by installing the brand new Game Day Grass 3D60 H specifically designed for baseball.
Ê Tropicana Field features the world’s second-
largest cable-supported domed roof (Georgia
Dome is the largest). It’s made of six acres of
Tropicana Field
$18 million toward improvements to Tropicana
Field including the creation of the Hancock
Bank Club, major improvements to the interior
of the park, the installation of new video boards
and a sound system, and the addition of the
Ted Williams Museum and Hitters Hall of Fame
located in Center Field Street.
The Tampa Bay Rays and the New York Yankees
line up for the national anthem just before the start
of Opening Day at Tropicana Field on April 6,
2012. The Rays went on to win the game, 7-6.
Ê Originally named the Florida Suncoast Dome,
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translucent, Teflon-coated fiberglass and it virtually supports itself with 180 miles of cables
connected by struts. Opposing forces of tension and compression keep the roof in an arc.
Tropicana Field’s roof is slanted at a 6.5-degree
angle, dropping from 225 feet above second
base to 85 feet at the center field wall. The
slanted roof reduced the overall construction
costs and decreased the volume of air under
the dome by 16.8 million cubic feet. Accordingly,
that reduced the amount of air that requires climate control treatment. It is built to withstand
winds of up to 115 miles per hour.
tive events. These include hockey, basketball,
football, sprint car racing, gymnastics, soccer,
tennis, weightlifting, ping-pong, karate, motorcycle racing, equestrian events, track and field
and figure skating.
Ê In addition to the 2008 World Series, the facility
was also home to the 1999 NCAA Basketball
Final Four featuring Duke, Ohio State, Michigan
State and eventual-champion Connecticut. The
largest crowd to date — 47,150 — appeared at
the Aug 11, 1990, concert featuring New Kids on
the Block. It is currently home to college football’s Beef O’ Brady’s Bowl, the Under Armour
All-American High School All-Star Game and the
East West Shrine Game.
Ê Though originally built for baseball, Tropicana
Field has hosted 14 other sports and competi-
TROPICANA FIELD AT A GLANCE
FENCE DIMENSIONS
Left Field Line
Left Field Alley
Left-Center
Center Field
Right-Center
Right Field Alley
Right Field Line
FENCE HEIGHTS
315 ft.
370 ft.
410 ft.
404 ft.
404 ft.
370 ft.
322 ft.
Left Field
Center Field
Right Field
Left Field low wall
ROOF HEIGHTS
11 ft., 5 in.
9 ft., 4 in.
11 ft., 5 in.
5 ft
PLAYING SURFACE
Highest Point
Lowest Point
225 ft. at center
85 ft. at CF wall
PARKING
Approximately 7,000
on-site spaces
AstroTurf Game Day
Grass 3D-60 H
CAPACITY
34,078
TROPICANA FIELD TICKET PURCHASING INFO
TICKET PURCHASE
BY WALK-UP
Tropicana Box Office
One Tropicana Drive, Gate 1
(next to Rotunda, east side of ballpark)
Non-Gameday Hours
Monday-Friday: 9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Saturday: 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Sunday: Noon – 4 p.m.
Gameday Hours
Gate 1: 9 a.m. until half an hour after end of game
Gate 4: Half hour before gates open until the
middle of the 7th inning
TICKET PURCHASE BY PHONE
1-800-745-3000 or 1-888-FAN-RAYS
TICKET PURCHASE ONLINE
raysbaseball.com
DID YO U K N OW?
SPECIAL SEATS
Fans at Tropicana Field will notice two golden seats and one white seat among the blue seats
in the right field stands. The golden seat in the third row of Section 148 is the location where
the Rays first home run landed, a two-run shot hit by Wade Boggs off DET Justin Thompson
in the sixth inning of the Rays inaugural game on March 31, 1998. The other golden seat, in
Section 144, marks the spot where Boggs’ 3,000th hit landed, a two-run home run off CLE Chris
Haney on Aug 7, 1999. The white seat in Section 140 (row T, seat 10) marks the spot where Dan
Johnson’s two-out, ninth inning, game-tying home run landed against the New York Yankees in
Game 162 of the 2011 season. Three innings later, Evan Longoria hit a walk-off homer to left field
giving the Rays an 8-7 win, clinching the AL Wild Card.
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2013 SINGLE GAME PRICING
Diamond
$300
$180
$175
$142
$105
$75
$65
$50
$47
$45
$30
$23
$19
Platinum
$275
$160
$155
$115
$84
$62
$55
$46
$41
$39
$25
$21
$17
Gold
$210
$130
$125
$92
$72
$50
$40
$37
$31
$29
$17
$14
$14
Silver
$190
$120
$115
$80
$60
$40
$30
$27
$22
$20
$13
$10
$10
LISTED PRICES INCREASE $3 EACH SEATING CATEGORY, BEGINNING FIVE HOURS PRIOR TO EACH RESPECTIVE GAME. ALL TICKET PRICES FOR EACH
GAME ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT THE RAYS DISCRETION. PLEASE VISIT RAYSBASEBALL.COM FOR CURRENT PRICING INFORMATION.
Tropicana Field
Seating Category
n Home Plate Club
n Hancock Bank Club
n Hancock Bank Club 105
n Fieldside Box
n Lower Infield Box
n Lower Box
n Lower Reserved
n Press Level
n Press Level Box
n Baseline Box
n Outfield
n Upper Box
n Upper Reserved | tbt* Party Deck
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TROPICANA FIELD & MISC. › CHARLOTTE SPORTS PARK
CHARLOTTE
SPORTS PARK
SKIP MILOS
ON SEP 20, 2006, the Rays and the Charlotte County Board of Commissioners signed a 20-year
agreement for the team to conduct spring training at Charlotte Sports Park, spring training home of the
Texas Rangers from 1987–2002. Following an 18-month renovation, the park became the Rays official
spring home on Feb 25, 2009 when Tampa Bay hosted the Cincinnati Reds. The Rays went on to set
the franchise spring training attendance record and sold out eight home games in their first season in
Charlotte County and have played to nearly 85 percent capacity over the team’s first four seasons there.
n CHARLOTTE STONE CRABS
Owned and operated by Ripken
Baseball, the Stone Crabs are the
summer resident of Charlotte Sports
Park. The Rays Class-A affiliate plays
70 regular season games at CSP.
n SIZE
82 acres, including the ballpark and
5-½ practice fields
n ARCHITECT
Populous, formerly known as HOK
Sport Facilities Group, Inc. (Kansas
City, Mo.)
n FINANCING
The $27.2 million renovation and
expansion project was funded
by the Charlotte County Board of
Commissioners’ unanimous approval
(4-0) of a fifth-cent tourism tax, a
contribution from the Rays and a $15
million grant from the Florida Sports
Foundation and the State’s Office of
Tourism.
n SEATING CAPACITY
The ballpark features a diversity of
seating areas within the park, including over 5,000 fixed seats and two
berm areas and other general admission areas that can accommodate
over 1,000 additional fans, all within
an intimate ballpark setting. The stadium capacity is 6,823.
n CLUBHOUSE
A 44,000-square-foot, two-story
clubhouse building beyond right field
features state-of-the-art locker room
and training facilities, and houses the
Rays major and minor league players
and the Rays Player Development
Center.
n PLAYING FIELD DIMENSIONS
Left Field Line
Left Field Alley
Center Field
Right Field Alley
Right Field Line
343 ft.
384 ft.
414 ft.
384 ft.
343 ft.
n TEAM STORE
Located just inside the entry gate
behind home plate, a 2,800-squarefoot team store is open daily during
spring training.
n BASEBALL BOARDWALK
A 19,000-square-foot wooden concourse stretches around the outfield
to provide 360-degree pedestrian
circulation and incredible views of the
playing field and pitching bullpens
for all fans.
n GROUP SEATING
Three party areas located on the
boardwalk are available to groups
and can seat a total of 276 fans.
Suites are also available for group
purchase on a per-season or pergame basis.
n TIKI BAR
On the boardwalk in left-center field,
a full liquor tiki bar has seating for up
to 69 fans at a time.
n KIDS’ CLUBHOUSE
A playground area located behind
the berm seating area in right field
was designed with the help of about
20 kids in Charlotte County and
features a variety of activities for kids
of all ages.
n PARKING
Over 1,500 parking spaces are
located on site, with 500 additional
spaces to be used across the street
at the County Fairgrounds.
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TROPICANA FIELD & MISC. › SPRING TRAINING 2013
SPRING
TRAINING 2013
ALL-TIME RESULTS
HOME STADIUM
REPORT DATES
Charlotte Sports Park
Tampa Bay Rays
2300 El Jobean Road
Port Charlotte, FL 33948
Pitchers & Catchers
Tuesday, Feb 12
Position Players
Saturday, Feb 16
COMMUNICATIONS
FIRST WORKOUT DATES
Phone
(941) 235-5044
Fax
(941) 235-5095
Email
ctodd@raysbaseball.com
Pitchers & Catchers
Wednesday, Feb 13
Position Players
Sunday, Feb 17
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OPPONENT
Pittsburgh (SS)
@Boston (SS)
@Minnesota
Boston
Houston
@Pittsburgh
Detroit
@Toronto
Baltimore
Minnesota
@Boston
@Minnesota
OPEN DATE
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Philadelphia
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Boston
Minnesota
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OPEN DATE
@Baltimore
Philadelphia
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Minnesota
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Detroit
SITE
Charlotte County
Fort Myers
Lee County
Charlotte County
Charlotte County
Bradenton
Charlotte County
Dunedin
Charlotte County
Charlotte County
Fort Myers
Lee County
Bradenton
Charlotte County
Clearwater
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Sarasota
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Fort Myers
Lakeland
Lee County
Charlotte County
Charlotte County
Bradenton
Charlotte County
Tampa
Charlotte County
Clearwater
Charlotte County
Sarasota
Lakeland
Tropicana Field
RADIO: SPORTS ANIMAL WDAE 620 AM (W), MLB.COM (M)
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TELEVISION: SUN SPORTS (T)
RECORDS
BATTING
Games
29, Ray Sadler | ’09
Avg. (MIN. 40-AB) .460, Sean Rodriguez | ’10
At-Bats
85, Aubrey Huff | ’03
Runs
20, Sean Rodriguez | ’10
Hits
29, Sean Rodriguez | ’10
Doubles
10, Travis Lee | ’03
Triples
3, Justin Ruggiano | ’10
Ben Zobrist | ’09
Carl Crawford | ’07
Julio Lugo | ’05
Randy Winn | ’02
Home Runs
8, Herbert Perry | ’00
RBI
19, Jose Guillen | ’01
SB
12, Elliot Johnson | ’11
PITCHING
Games
12, Roberto Hernandez | ’00
Jim Mecir | ’98
Ramon Tatis | ’98
Games Started
7, Esteban Yan | ’00
James Shields | ’07
Wins
3, James Shields | ’12
Rob Delaney | ’11
Jeff Niemann | ’10
Mike Ekstrom | ’10
Wade Davis | ’10
James Shields | ’07
Bryan Rekar | ’01
Bobby Witt | ’99
Losses
4, Joe Kennedy | ’03
Saves
4, Jim Mecir | ’00
Jason Childers | ’06
ERA (MIN. 15-IP)
0.60, Paul Wilson | ’01
Innings
29.1, James Shields | ’07
Walks
14, Wade Davis | ’10
Strikeouts
30, James Shields | ’07
Spring Training 2013
DAY
Sat
W
L T ATTENDANCE
10 16 6
87,916
15 14 0
95,859
20
8 2
97,971
15 16 1
103,255
18
8 2
54,960
10 19 2
79,044
13 16 1
70,756
13 16 0
61,261
11
8 0
43,916
8 19 3
51,324
10 16 1
49,043
12 15 1
57,081
14 17 0
67,089
14 14 1
59,230
12 18 0
66,781
195 220 20
1,045,486
SPRING TRAINING INFO › FEB 12 – MARCH 30
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100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY
OF MLB IN TAMPA BAY
PHOTO COURTESY OF
NATIONAL BASEBALL
HALL OF FAME
IT WAS EXACTLY 100 YEARS AGO,
in St. Petersburg, where a 2,000-seat grandstand
was built.
The first game between two major league teams
was at Tampa’s Plant Field on March 27, 1914 as
the Grapefruit League was established. The Cubs
hosted the Browns and Chicago prevailed, 3-2. The
Cubs were fueled by Cy Williams first-inning, tworun home run.
Over the past 100 years, major league baseball has had a presence in either Tampa or St.
Petersburg for all but three years. Travel restrictions during World War II prohibited teams from
traveling south for the spring from 1943 to 1945.
Nine teams have trained in St. Petersburg: the St.
Louis Browns (1914), Philadelphia Phillies (1915-18),
Boston Braves (1922-37), New York Yankees (192542; 1946-50; 1952-61), St. Louis Cardinals (193842; 1946-97), New York Giants (1951), New York
Mets (1962-87), Baltimore Orioles (1993-95) and
the Rays (1998-2008). More major league spring
training games have been played in St. Petersburg
than in any other city.
Tampa has been the spring training home for
six major league clubs: Chicago Cubs (1913-16),
Cincinnati Reds (1931-42, 1946-87), Boston Red
Sox (1919), Detroit Tigers (1930), Washington
Senators (1920-29), Chicago White Sox (1954-59)
and the New York Yankees (1996-current).
Minor league baseball began in the Tampa Bay
area in 1919 when Tampa became a charter member of the Florida State League. St. Petersburg followed the next year.
There was one other professional league in St.
Petersburg prior to the Rays arrival in 1998. The
Senior Professional Baseball Association, a league
of former major leaguers who were 35 years of age
or older, sprang up for one season, 1989-90.
February 17, 1913, that major league baseball first
planted roots in the Tampa Bay area. It was on that
date that 36 members of the Chicago Cubs disembarked their Seaboard train No. 99 at Tampa’s
Union Station to begin a 31-day training camp.
Mayor D.B. McKay lured the Cubs from New
Orleans by promising to cover the team’s expenses
up to $100 per player and while it was reported
the city lost between $500 and $600, both sides
were “well pleased” to the point where a five-year
contract was signed just before the Cubs headed
north the day after St. Patrick’s Day.
Under Manager Johnny Evers, the Cubs played at
Tampa’s Plant Field and stayed at the nearby 500room Tampa Bay Hotel. The only other team training in Florida in 1913 was the Cleveland Indians
in Pensacola, so the Cubs trained anywhere from
2-1/2 to 5 hours a day and played 11 games including six games against the Yannigans (rookies). The
Cubs also played three games against the Havana
A’s, a team of barnstorming Cuban stars, and the
Cubs swept the series winning 4-2, 12-4 and 17-1,
their first three games in Tampa.
Around that same time, a former Pittsburgh
laundry owner named Al Lang moved to St.
Petersburg to benefit his health. He soon became
interested in the local economy and focused on
trying to help the sagging tourism industry. As a
baseball fan, he believed the answer was to attract
a major league team to St. Pete for spring training.
In 1914, Lang convinced the St. Louis Browns,
under Manager Branch Rickey, to move to St.
Petersburg. A baseball committee, formed to
attract a major league team to the city, raised
$20,000 to buy a large tract of land for a ballpark.
The site chosen for the field was Coffee Pot Bayou
The 1913 Chicago
Cubs, Tampa
Bay’s first team.
2013
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7:10
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CLE TEX TEX TEX
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7:10
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J U N E • J U LY
APRI L
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11:05
22
E
7:05
23
7:05
24
7:05
25
7:10
26
27
28
CWS
7:10
7:10
29
7:10
MON
NYY
WED
KC
7:10
6
7
THU
2
8:10
8
KC
2:10
9
COL TOR TOR TOR TOR
12
SD
7:10
7:10
13
14
19
7:10
15
7:10
20
21
7:10
22
BAL TOR TOR TOR
1:35
26
4
COL COL
8:40
10
8:10
11
SD
7:10
16
SAT
FRI
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SD
7:10
17
1:07
7:07
27
NYY MIA
18
F
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7:10
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WED
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30
31
25
THU
FRI
CLE
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9
5
7:05
10
E
11
6
7:05
12
BAL BOS BOS BOS
1:40
16
KC
7:10
17
18
24
25
1:40
23
7:10
7:10
19
SAT
7:10
26
NYY TOR TOR TOR
TBA
7:10
7
1:05
1:05
13
KC
7:10
20
8
7:10
14
KC
7:10
21
4:10
F
KC
15
4:10
22
BOS BOS NYY NYY NYY
7:10
7:10
22
23
7:10
12:10
7:05
27
7:10
7:05
1:05
FF
DET DET
28
7:10
29
7:15
E = ESPN
24
7:10
29
30
ARI
7:10
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5
TUE
6
ARI
9:40
12
13
7:10
19
4:10
20
TOR TOR
7:07
25
26
1:07
27
7:10
7:10
7:05
1:05
31
ARI
7:10
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THU
SAT
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7
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7:10
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20
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E
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DET DET DET BAL BAL
4
CITI FIELD, NEW YORK
1:40
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12:10
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7:10
7:10
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TOR BAL BAL BAL
4:10
MIA CLE
7:05
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MIN HOU HOU
ALL-STAR BREAK
TBA
F
NYY NYY
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LAD
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7:10
7:10
7:10
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7:10
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7:10
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FRI
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11
1
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4:37
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7:05
7:10
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1:40
S E P TE M B E R
JUNE
1:40
28
7:10
SUN
6:10
BOS BOS BOS BAL BAL
1:40
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1:05
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7:10
1:07
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8:10
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MAY
SUN
THU
TOR BOS BOS BOS BOS NYY NYY
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7:10
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8:10
WED
CWS MIN MIN MIN
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30
2:10
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8:10
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1:40
OAK NYY NYY NYY CWS CWS CWS
1:40
1:40
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HOU
7:10
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6
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E 2
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DET HOU HOU HOU HOU CWS CWS
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20
BOS BOS BAL BAL BAL OAK OAK
1:35
SUN
30
7:05
7:05
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7:10
23
7:10
24
NYY NYY
7:10
7:10
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LAA LAA LAA OAK OAK
27
28
7:10
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7:10
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3
29
7:10
1:10
WED
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30
10:07
THU
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31
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SAT
FRI
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OAK LAA LAA LAA LAA SEA SEA
4:07
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9:05
10:05
10:05
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10:10
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7:05
7:10
7:10
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F = FOX
All games televised on Sun Sports unless otherwise noted.
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