Grapefruit League- George M. Steinbrenner Field- New York Yankees

HEARING AN UMPIRE CALL “PLAY BALL!” IS NOTHING NEW IN FLORIDA. MAJOR LEAGUE SPRING TRAINING BEGAN HERE IN 1888, WHEN THE WASHINGTON STATESMEN

(LATER THE WASHINGTON SENATORS) VISITED JACKSONVILLE TO PLAY A SERIES OF PRE-SEASON EXHIBITION GAMES.

FLORIDA BECAME A ...

Grapefruit League- Ed Smith Stadium- Baltimore Orioles

HEARING AN UMPIRE CALL “PLAY BALL!” IS NOTHING NEW IN FLORIDA. MAJOR LEAGUE SPRING TRAINING BEGAN HERE IN 1888, WHEN THE WASHINGTON STATESMEN

(LATER THE WASHINGTON SENATORS) VISITED JACKSONVILLE TO PLAY A SERIES OF PRE-SEASON EXHIBITION GAMES.

FLORIDA BECAME A ...

Grapefruit League- Jet Blue Park- Boston Red Sox

HEARING AN UMPIRE CALL “PLAY BALL!” IS NOTHING NEW IN FLORIDA. MAJOR LEAGUE SPRING TRAINING BEGAN HERE IN 1888, WHEN THE WASHINGTON STATESMEN

(LATER THE WASHINGTON SENATORS) VISITED JACKSONVILLE TO PLAY A SERIES OF PRE-SEASON EXHIBITION GAMES.

FLORIDA BECAME A ...

Grapefruit League- Champion Stadium- Atlanta Braves

HEARING AN UMPIRE CALL “PLAY BALL!” IS NOTHING NEW IN FLORIDA. MAJOR LEAGUE SPRING TRAINING BEGAN HERE IN 1888, WHEN THE WASHINGTON STATESMEN

(LATER THE WASHINGTON SENATORS) VISITED JACKSONVILLE TO PLAY A SERIES OF PRE-SEASON EXHIBITION GAMES.

FLORIDA BECAME A ...

Ybor City

Although fine cigars are synonymous with Cuba, for a few decades in the early twentieth century, Tampa Bay’s Ybor City surpassed Havana as the cigar capital of the world.

Manufacturers moved to Key West in the late 1860s to avoid paying ...

Ruby Diamond/ Jewish Heritage

During Jewish-American Heritage Month, we’d like to recognize the legacy of Ruby Diamond. Miss Ruby, as she came to be known, was a lifelong citizen of Tallahassee and a 1905 graduate of what is now Florida State University. Perhaps best ...

Jakes/Patterson Bus Boycott

On May 26, 1956, Florida A&M University students, Wilhelmina Jakes and Carrie Patterson boarded a Tallahassee city bus and sat in the only seats available -- next to a white female passenger in the front of the bus. The bus ...

Jackie Robinson

MANY ARE AWARE THAT JACKIE ROBINSON BROKE THE COLOR BARRIER IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL, BUT HOW MANY KNOW THAT HE DID IT IN FLORIDA?

IN 1945, THE BROOKLYN DODGERS, SECRETLY SIGNED JACKIE ROBINSON TO THE DODGERS’ TOP FARM CLUB, THE ...

Betty Mae Tiger Jumper

Betty Mae Tiger Jumper spent her early childhood on the Seminole reservation in Dania. With no schools for Native Americans in Florida during the 1930s, she left home at 14, speaking only Creek and Miccosukee, to attend a boarding school ...

Florida Southern College/ Frank Lloyd Wright buildings

FLORIDA IS HOME TO THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF BUILDINGS ON A SINGLE SITE DESIGNED BY REKNOWNED ARCHITECT, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT. LUDD M. SPIVEY, THEN-PRESIDENT OF FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE, CONTACTED WRIGHT IN 1938 TO CREATE A PLAN FOR THE PRIVATE SCHOOL ...