Pinellas continues ramping up national and international interest in the sports sector. More teams and tournaments are finding the appeal of the county as a hot spot for competition, driven by warmer winter weather and expanding infrastructure like the $26.5 million Sprowls Horizon Sports Park, which debuted in February.
Of course, the appeal of being somewhere warm, when your hometown is insufferable to play in during the winter, isn’t new.
Way back in the day, the New York Yankees, during Babe Ruth’s record-setting era, would practice at Huggins-Stengle Field in Crescent Lake Park, then unwind at Mastry’s off Central Ave. during spring training…