Baseball City

Exterior of Baseball City Stadium, Aug-2001.

A view of the seating bowl two hours before a Gulf Coast League game.

• Location: Route 27 just south of I-4, Davenport, Fla.
• Opened: 1988
• Home teams: Spring training, Kansas City Royals (1988-2002); Gulf Coast League Royals (1988-2002)
• Capacity: 8,000

By 2001, however, much of the traffic that used to frequent Baseball City had moved several miles up I-4, to Disney’s Wide World of Sports, a part of Walt Disney World. The Kansas City Royals moved their spring training site to Arizona for 2003; by the fall of that year, the complex was being bulldozed for yet another shopping mall.