Florida
Spring Training Guide to all teams in Florida's Grapefruit
League including stadium locations, ticket prices, telephone
numbers, team schedules and more. Major League Baseball's
spring training "tuneup" for the regular season is played
in 14 Florida locations during the month of February and
March.
Florida Grapefruit
League Association was formed to enhance Florida's Relationship
with all Spring Training venues through improved communication
and information exchange. With venues from Lake Buena Vista
to Fort Lauderdale on Florida's east coast and from Lakeland
to Fort Myers on the west coast, there is spring training
baseball for everyone in Florida!
Major League Baseball
spring training gets underway in
Florida on March 2 for a month-long series
of practices and pre-season games that's
known as the "Grapefruit League"
(the West Coast's equivalent is the
Cactus
League, which takes places around
the Greater Phoenix area over the same dates).
The 2010 season sees 15 MLB teams traveling
to Florida venues including Orlando, Tampa,
Sarasota, and Clearwater. The New York Yankees
will be based out of Steinbrenner Field
in Tampa; both the St. Louis Cardinals and
Florida Marlins will be batting out of Roger
Dean Stadium in Jupiter, a short drive north
of Fort Lauderdale and Miami in Palm Beach
County. Take advantage of pre-spring break
flight and hotel deals, as well as affordable
game-day tickets and better-than-usual access
to some of he league's top sluggers.