Fort Lauderdale Stadium was a

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stadium located in

Fort Lauderdale, Florida Fort Lauderdale () is a coastal city located in the U.S. state of Florida, north of Miami along the Atlantic Ocean. It is the county seat of and largest city in Broward County with a population of 182,760 at the 2020 census, making it the tenth ...

next to Lockhart Stadium. The stadium was demolished in June 2019 as part of the construction of

Inter Miami CF Stadium DRV PNK Stadium (pronounced as Drive Pink Stadium, formerly Inter Miami CF Stadium) is a soccer-specific stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Built on the site of the former Lockhart Stadium, the 18,000-seat stadium is the home pitch of Inter Mi ...

for

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. The

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announced in March 1961 that they would move

spring training Spring training is the preseason in Major League Baseball (MLB), a series of practices and exhibition games preceding the start of the regular season. Spring training allows new players to try out for Schedule (workplace), roster and position spo ...

from St. Petersburg, Florida to Fort Lauderdale where a new stadium would be built for the team at an estimated cost of $500,000 with 4,000 covered seats and 4,000 bleacher seats. The Yankees trained at the stadium between 1962 and 1995. The Fort Lauderdale Yankees of the minor league

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played home games in the stadium from 1962 through 1992. The

Fort Lauderdale Red Sox A fortification is a military construction or building designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is also used to establish rule in a region during peacetime. The term is derived from Latin ''fortis'' ("strong") and ''facere'' ...

played home games there in 1993, after an unsuccessful attempt to move from Winter Haven to Fort Myers (they ended up the following year in Sarasota). The

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held spring training at the stadium from 1996 to 2009. Fort Lauderdale Stadium was last leased to

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(owners of the

Fort Lauderdale Strikers Fort Lauderdale Strikers may refer to: *Fort Lauderdale Strikers (1977–1983), member of North American Soccer League from 1977 to 1983 *Fort Lauderdale Strikers (1988–1994), member of American Soccer League from 1988 to 1989 and American Profes ...

) in June 2011.

References

External links

Fort Lauderdale Stadium on Strikers' Website

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