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DAY |
DATE |
OPPONENT |
SITE |
TIME |
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Wednesday |
Feb. 25 |
Tampa Bay Rays |
Port Charlotte |
1:05 p.m. |
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Thursday |
Feb. 26 |
MINNESOTA TWINS |
SARASOTA |
1:05 p.m. |
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Friday |
Feb. 27 |
PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES |
SARASOTA |
1:05 p.m. |
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Saturday |
Feb. 28 |
Boston Red Sox |
Fort Myers |
7:05 p.m. |
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Sunday |
March 1 |
NEW YORK YANKEES |
SARASOTA |
1:05 p.m. |
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Monday |
March 2 |
Pittsburgh Pirates |
Bradenton |
1:05 p.m. |
| Tuesday | March 3 | Boston Red Sox | Fort Myers | 1:05 p.m. |
| Wednesday | March 4 | WBC TEAM - NETHERLANDS | SARASOTA | 6:05 p.m. |
| Thursday | March 5 | PITTSBURGH PIRATES | SARASOTA | 1:05 p.m. |
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Friday |
March 6 |
Minnesota Twins |
Fort Myers |
1:05 p.m. |
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Saturday |
March 7 |
Toronto Blue Jays |
Dunedin |
1:05 p.m. |
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Sunday |
March 8 |
TORONTO BLUE JAYS |
SARASOTA |
1:05 p.m. |
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Monday |
March 9 |
Philadelphia Phillies |
Clearwater |
1:05 p.m. |
| Tuesday | March 10 | New York Yankees | Tampa | 7:15 p.m. |
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Wednesday |
March 11 |
HOUSTON ASTROS |
SARASOTA |
1:05 p.m. |
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Friday |
March 13 |
Minnesota Twins |
Fort Myers |
7:05 p.m. |
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Saturday |
March 14 |
TAMPA BAY RAYS |
SARASOTA |
1:05 p.m. |
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Sunday |
March 15 |
Toronto Blue Jays |
Dunedin |
1:05 p.m. |
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Tuesday |
March 17 |
Philadelphia Phillies |
Clearwater |
1:05 p.m. |
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Wednesday |
March 18 |
Tampa Bay Rays |
Port Charlotte |
1:05 p.m. |
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Thursday |
March 19 |
BOSTON RED SOX |
SARASOTA |
7:05 p.m. |
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Friday |
March 20 |
Houston Astros |
Kissimmee |
1:05 p.m. |
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Saturday |
March 21 |
PITTSBURGH PIRATES |
SARASOTA |
1:05 p.m. |
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Sunday |
March 22 |
Pittsburgh Pirates |
Bradenton |
1:05 p.m. |
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Monday |
March 23 |
TORONTO BLUE JAYS |
SARASOTA |
1:05 p.m. |
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Wednesday |
March 25 |
BOSTON RED SOX |
SARASOTA |
1:05 p.m. |
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Thursday |
March 26 |
MINNESOTA TWINS |
SARASOTA |
7:05 p.m. |
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Friday |
March 27 |
New York Yankees |
Tampa |
7:15 p.m. |
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Saturday |
March 28 |
Tampa Bay Rays |
Port Charlotte |
1:05 p.m. |
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Sunday |
March 29 |
TAMPA BAY RAYS |
SARASOTA |
1:05 p.m. |
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Monday |
March 30 |
Pittsburgh Pirates |
Bradenton |
1:05 p.m. |
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Tuesday |
March 31 |
NEW YORK YANKEES |
SARASOTA |
1:05 p.m. |
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Wednesday |
April 1
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Houston Astros |
Kissimmee | 1:05 p.m. |
| Thursday | April 2 | PITTSBURGH PIRATES | SARASOTA | 1:05 p.m. |
Directions to Ed Smith Stadium
South on I-75: Exit 213 (University Parkway West); Follow signs to Sarasota to Tuttle Avenue. Left on Tuttle Avenue to 12th Street. Right onto 12th Street.
North on I-75: Exit 210 (Fruitville Road West); Fruitville Road to Tuttle Avenue. Right on Tuttle Avenue to 12th Street. Left on 12th Street.
From Bradenton: 41 South to University Parkway. Left on University Parkway to Tuttle Avenue. Right on Tuttle Avenue to 12th Street. Right on 12th Street.
Stadium Information
Parking: $10 per car, $5 for cars with four or more people.
Stadium built in 1989
Dimensions: 340 feet left and right field lines 400 feet to centerfield.
Seating Capacity: 7,500.
Reds 12th Spring Training at this location.
Cincinnati Red Spring Training Location History
1905 Jacksonville
1920 Miami
1923-30 Orlando
1931-42 Tampa
1946-87 Tampa (Al Lopez Field)
1988-97 Plant City (Plant City Stadium)
1998-2009 Sarasota (Ed Smith Stadium)
Attending a Reds Game at Ed Smith Stadium
The Cincinnati Reds filled the vacancy created when the Chicago White Sox jumped to the Cactus League moving to Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota in 1998. Ed Smith Stadium was built in 1989.
In 2007, the Reds will be celebrating their 10th season of baseball in Sarasota.
The 53-acre site houses the stadium and the surrounding spring-training complex with four-and-a-half practice fields and 35,000 square feet of clubhouses and office space. It maintains a national reputation as a premier baseball facility and continues to be the mecca of baseball activity in the area.
Local musicians get fans fired up in the main concourse. Ed Smith Stadium is all red, from red awnings to red seats to the Reds themselves. Beautiful palm trees line beyond the outfield fence, similar to those at the Red Sox Spring Training facility in Fort Myers.
There's a solid fan atmosphere from some of baseball's most knowledgeable fans and you'll know you're in Reds country with fans decked in Reds T-shirts and the giant "C" painted on the grass behind home plate.
Sarasota has a long history of spring training baseball dating back to the 1920's and Calvin Nathaniel Payne. John McGraw's New York Giants held spring training at Payne Park from 1924 through 1927 at the persuasion of one of his good friends John Ringling. After the Giants left in 1927, the Boston Red Sox called Payne Park their spring training home from 1933 until 1958 and were followed by the Chicago White Sox and Reds.
Reds Spring Training Attendance (2000-2008)
| . | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 |
| Total Attendance | 89,410 | 75,796 | 69,655 | 68,380 | 79,633 | 87,292 | 84,411 | 87,344 | 90,489 |
| Number of Games | 15 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 17 |
| Average Attendance | 5,961 | 5,053 | 4,353 | 4,274 | 4,683 | 5,456 | 5,276 | 5,823 | 5,318 |
Area Information
Sarasota Convention & Visitors Bureau, (800) 522-9799 or
www.sarasotafl.org
Official Cincinnati
Reds Web Site