In the spectrum of not-so-breaking news, Tampa Bay Rays ownership is not a huge fan of their team playing at Tropicana Field, America’s favorite giant warehouse. Owner Stuart Sternberg said they’ve done all that they can to make the facility adequate, but it just does not invoke an ideal baseball atmosphere.
In 2008, then-St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker established a group called the ABC Coalition. The coalition’s job was to determine whether or not the Rays needed a new stadium, and they quickly decided that it was necessary. Their job then became finding the three best sites where a proposed stadium could possibly be built.
This is where they went from simple focus group to controversial entity.
Today, the ABC Coalition will meet with the Pinellas County Commission to d ...
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