Smoking cigarettes is not allowed in the ballpark. New video screens improve the experience of watching a game, plus the unique Rays Touch Tank beyond the outfield allows fans to reach into a 10,gallon tank and touch the cownose rays that are swimming within. Best of all, the Ted Williams Museum is now located within the Trop, and fans can visit it for free before and during games with a ticket. If the Rays are forced to honor the lease that runs through , the franchise might not survive, at least not in St.
A new park is needed, and soon. The search for an acceptable site in the Tampa Bay area has taken many twists and turns in recent years, including a proposal to build a retractable-roof ballpark on the site of Al Lang Field. That proposal, as well as numerous others, has fallen through.
All the while, attendance suffers. He added that the Trop "lacks many of the things baseball fans across the league expect today. It seems clear that the Rays in a next-generation ballpark would see much higher attendance. On the other side of the ledger, the Trop is the last baseball stadium with a fixed dome, as Phoenix, Toronto, Houston, Minneapolis, Seattle and Miami all have retractable roofs. Tampa St. All ballparks have wide selections of food and beverages, but each has a signature item that usually reflects the local flavor: Rays Cuban Sandwich.
Symbolic of the nearby Ybor City neighborhood in Tampa, this local favorite features sliced ham, pork and Genoa salami on toasted Cuban bread with Swiss cheese, pickles and mustard. The sandwich is grilled flat. Facebook Twitter Email. Tropicana Field: All dome and gloom. Joe Mock, BaseballParks. Petersburg, Florida, in the hopes of attracting an MLB team. In , the City of St. Petersburg was awarded an expansion baseball team in the American League, so the next three years were set to make this an official Major League Baseball ballpark.
In , Tropicana Products signed a year naming rights deal with the Devil Rays to put their name outside the new ballpark. The weather outside the City of St. Petersburg has hot summers, thunderstorms, and hurricanes, so a dome was the only solution to keep baseball comfortable.
A dome setting meant that no natural grass could grow in the outfield, so AstroTurf was initially installed, but was replaced with Field Turf in The outside of the new stadium had a noticeable tilt in the roof that everyone could see from far away. For example, you had the Metrodome as a dome-baseball stadium at that time, so the sighting was strange to the say the least.
The first reason was to protect the structure from hurricanes that would hit the area consistently. Strong winds would be able to glide down the angle of the roof instead of causing significant damage to the top structure. The second reason for a tilt in the roof was to reduce the cost to cool down the venue for events and baseball home games. With the roof tilting in the outfield, you have the catwalks at a lower height.
That means a baseball will occasionally hit one of the catwalks and then fall back into play. When a ball hits the C or D ring, you automatically have the ruling as a home run.
The last occurrence of someone hitting the D Ring took place in with David Ortiz. Outside of the catwalk, the Minnesota Twins had a player hit a ball off the speaker hanging from the roof. A more frequent issue is when a player pops the ball up over the infield and hits the catwalk. Baseballs will strike Ring A on occasion, then fall in a different part of the field. It is the first Major League ballpark in more then twenty years to feature AstroTurf and all-dirt base paths.
Tropicana Field closed its doors in October for a seventeen month, eighty-five million dollar baseball renovation that included adding , square feet of space. The Florida Suncoast Dome was originally built for baseball, yet there have been at least fifteen other sports including 5-K runs, basketball, equestrian events, figure skating, football, gymnastics, hockey, karate, monster truck races, motorcycling, ping pong, soccer, sprint car, tennis, and weightlifting and competitions played in the stadium.
Tropicana Field is downright proud of the cutting-edge amenities and entertainment options it serves up with its baseball.
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