100 Years of Baseball on St. Petersburg's Waterfront: How the Game Helped Shape a City by Rick Vaughn

Author:Rick Vaughn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2022-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

A B-36 bomber flies over Al Lang Field and the West Coast Inn, where Babe Ruth’s legendary home run struck the second floor in 1934. Courtesy of St. Petersburg Museum of History.

Returning to St. Petersburg after a three-year break, veteran baseball writer Dan Daniel wrote in the third person on March 7:

Your correspondent has seen every training locale in this country. He has seen all the camps from Charlottesville, Va., where the Senators worked out years ago, before the war, to Catalina Island. And it is his conviction that St. Petersburg is the best of the lot. For winter alone, dry San Antonio takes the palm. But for all around superiority, St. Pete is tops. In St. Petersburg, you draw a crowd for every workout and you are sure of a good house for every game. Hotels are fine, and municipal appreciation for the good a ballclub does for a town is high, thanks in large measure, to Al Lang.

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