Sarasota County and the Baltimore Orioles have reached a tentative agreement for the team to do spring training at Ed Smith Stadium for the next 30 years. After almost 60 years of preseason baseball in the Miami - Fort Lauderdale area, the Orioles will be in Sarasota beginning in the Spring of 2010.
The $31.2 million deal will be funded with local tourism tax revenue and more than $7 million in state money. The agreement calls for the Orioles to pay all operating and maintenance costs at Ed Smith for the term of the lease.
The deal also includes:
- A proposed Orioles and Cal Ripken Baseball youth academy at Twin Lakes Park.
- And promotion of Sarasota County in the Baltimore Washington metro area.
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2 comments:
Hey. Thanks for the news. We're big baseball fans and look forward to the visiting baseball teams when we visit Sarasota for the winter months. We'll keep reading your blog. You seem to provide interesting news we don't hear otherwise.
This is big deal for Sarasota. This is too beneficial for the region, getting an academy is a brilliant plan along with many others.
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