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2009 Reds Spring Training Schedule
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Home games in all caps - All times local
DAY
DATE
OPPONENT
SITE
TIME
Wednesday
Feb. 25
Tampa Bay Rays
Port Charlotte
1:05 p.m.
Thursday
Feb. 26
MINNESOTA TWINS
SARASOTA
1:05 p.m.
Friday
Feb. 27
PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES
SARASOTA
1:05 p.m.
Saturday
Feb. 28
Boston Red Sox
Fort Myers
7:05 p.m.
Sunday
March 1
NEW YORK YANKEES
SARASOTA
1:05 p.m.
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.
Friday
March 6
Minnesota Twins
Fort Myers
1:05 p.m.
Saturday
March 7
Toronto Blue Jays
Dunedin
1:05 p.m.
Sunday
March 8
TORONTO BLUE JAYS
SARASOTA
1:05 p.m.
Monday
March 9
Philadelphia Phillies
Clearwater
1:05 p.m.
Tuesday
March 10
New York Yankees
Tampa
7:15 p.m.
Wednesday
March 11
HOUSTON ASTROS
SARASOTA
1:05 p.m.
Friday
March 13
Minnesota Twins
Fort Myers
7:05 p.m.
Saturday
March 14
TAMPA BAY RAYS
SARASOTA
1:05 p.m.
Sunday
March 15
Toronto Blue Jays
Dunedin
1:05 p.m.
Tuesday
March 17
Philadelphia Phillies
Clearwater
1:05 p.m.
Wednesday
March 18
Tampa Bay Rays
Port Charlotte
1:05 p.m.
Thursday
March 19
BOSTON RED SOX
SARASOTA
7:05 p.m.
Friday
March 20
Houston Astros
Kissimmee
1:05 p.m.
Saturday
March 21
PITTSBURGH PIRATES
SARASOTA
1:05 p.m.
Sunday
March 22
Pittsburgh Pirates
Bradenton
1:05 p.m.
Monday
March 23
TORONTO BLUE JAYS
SARASOTA
1:05 p.m.
Wednesday
March 25
BOSTON RED SOX
SARASOTA
1:05 p.m.
Thursday
March 26
MINNESOTA TWINS
SARASOTA
7:05 p.m.
Friday
March 27
New York Yankees
Tampa
7:15 p.m.
Saturday
March 28
Tampa Bay Rays
Port Charlotte
1:05 p.m.
Sunday
March 29
TAMPA BAY RAYS
SARASOTA
1:05 p.m.
Monday
March 30
Pittsburgh Pirates
Bradenton
1:05 p.m.
Tuesday
March 31
NEW YORK YANKEES
SARASOTA
1:05 p.m.
Wednesday
April 1
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