Tropicana Field

Tropicana Field
The Trop The Pit
Entrance to Tropicana Field
Earlier names
Florida Suncoast Dome (1990-1993) Thunderdome (1993-1996)
Data
place	One Tropicana Drive Saint Petersburg , Florida 33705
Coordinates	27 ° 46 '5.9 "  N , 82 ° 39' 12.3"  W Coordinates: 27 ° 46 '5.9 "  N , 82 ° 39' 12.3"  W.
owner	Saint Petersburg
start of building	1986
opening	March 3, 1990
surface	artificial grass
costs	130 million US dollars
capacity	36,048 seats
playing area	Left Field - 315 ft (96 m) Left Center - 370 ft (113 m) Center Field - 404 ft (123 m) Right Center - 370 ft (113 m) Right Field - 322 ft (98 m)
Societies)
Tampa Bay Rays ( MLB , since 1998) Tampa Bay Lightning ( NHL , 1993-1996)
Events
Davis Cup final in 1990

Exterior view of the stadium

Interior view of the stadium

The Tropicana Field is a multifunctional stadium with a closed roof in Saint Petersburg in the US state of Florida . It is the home of the Tampa Bay Rays , a major league baseball team in the American League . The stadium currently holds 36,048 spectators.

history

As early as the 1980s, the city of Saint Petersburg showed interest in a professional sports team and began building a new stadium in 1986. After trying unsuccessfully to move the Chicago White Sox and later the San Francisco Giants , when the stadium opened in 1993, no tenant had been found. In 1993 the NHL team Tampa Bay Lightning finally found a tenant who played there for three years. As a result, the stadium previously known as Suncoast Dome was renamed Thunderdome .

1995 you could sign a baseball team when the MLB was expanded. The naming rights were sold to Tropicana Products (since 1998 a fruit juice subsidiary of PepsiCo ) and in 1996 the stadium was renamed Tropicana Field.

2006 was Ted Williams Museum / Hitters Hall of Fame set at Tropicana Field after the original plant in Hernando in the bankruptcy went.

architecture

The building design was often criticized as unsuccessful with regard to the building use. The steel structure below the roof blocked balls several times and thus prevented regular home runs . The floodlight system, which is arranged in the shape of a ring under the roof, can also be a danger for the players if the glass over the field is broken if the ball is hit directly.

Web links

Commons : Tropicana Field  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tampa Bay Rays stadium website
• Tropicana Field on sports-venue.info
• Tropicana Field on ballparkdigest.com