Fort Lauderdale Stadium is a baseball stadium located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida next to Lockhart Stadium. Fort Lauderdale Stadium has recently been leased to Traffic Sports USA (owners of the Fort Lauderdale Strikers) until June 2011.
Baltimore Orioles spring training had been held at the stadium from 1996 to 2009. The Orioles announced that they will not return in 2010.
The New York Yankees trained at the stadium between 1962 and 1995. The Fort Lauderdale Yankees of the minor league Florida State League played home games in the stadium from 1962 through 1992. The stadium formerly hosted Federal League Semi-Pro Baseball games throughout the year.
Famous quotes containing the words fort and/or stadium:
“How often we read that the enemy occupied a position which commanded the old, and so the fort was evacuated! Have not the school-house and the printing-press occupied a position which commands such a fort as this?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It’s no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the Yankee Stadium of ancient times.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)