One of the two smaller ballparks located in St. Petersburg Florida was Coffee
Pot Park aka Sunshine Park, located on Coffee Pot Bayou. This stadium first
showed its face as a full time spring training home in 1914 for the St. Louis
Browns. Coffee Pot Park had a tiny grandstand that sat only a few hundred fans
with bleachers holding the rest of the overflow crowds. The second was Crescent
Lake Park aka Miller Huggins Stadium. This ballpark would serve as the Spring
Training home to the Yankees for nearly 4 decades... odd considering it was never
anything more than some thrown together bleachers. In it's 40 year history of
hosting the Yankees greats, it never featured any sort of proper covered grandstand.
The third ballpark was the jewel of this town... Waterfront Park.
Located on the corner of 1st Ave SE and 1st St SE, baseball would be played and
trained on for many years at this perfect little oasis near the water's edge. |