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AL LANG FIELD Capacity 7,184 Year Opened 1916; rebuilt in 1976 Dimensions 330L, 383LC, 410C, 383RC, 330R Surface Grass Tickets On Sale Jan. 11, 2008, 9 a.m. Five-game plans and season tickets on sale now. Ticket Prices Field Box, $20; Loge Box, $17; Grandstand, $15; General Admission (Berm), $7. Ticket Site raysbaseball.com. Ticket Lines 727/898-RAYS in Pinellas and 813/282-RAYS in Hillsborough. Tickets are not sold at the ballpark, but rather at the Tropicana Field box office. Local Airports St. Petersburg, Tampa Address 180 2nd Avenue SE., St. Petersburg. Directions Al Lang Field is only a mile and half from I-275. From either direction, take the exit to downtown St. Petersburg and follow the signs.

Yes, I know that technically the Devil Rays train at "Florida Power Park, Home of Al Lang Field," in St. Petersburg. But I'm a purist and hereafter I'll be referring to Al Lang Field as the spring-training home of the Devil Rays -- Florida Power be damned.

Al Lang Field is located right on the waterfront in downtown St. Petersburg -- and we mean right on the waterfront. There are gorgeous views of palm trees and sailboats down the left-field line.

If you're in a truly relaxed mood and want to stretch out under the warm sun -- a feeling that most of us Northerners crave in March -- pop for a $4 ticket and lay down on one of the grassy berms down the first- and third-base lines.

During the rest of the season Al Lang Field sits empty. This isn't surprising, as Tropicana Field, home of the Devil Rays, is only 12 blocks away. Al Lang Field used to be the home of the St. Petersburg Devil Rays (Class A; Florida State League), but when MLB realigned the minor leagues at the end of the 2000 season, two Florida State League teams were eliminated. This is the last year the Devil Rays will be training at Al Lang Field; next year the team will move to a remodeled ballpark in Charlotte County that was formerly the home of the Texas Rangers.

The Tampa Bay Devil Rays have trained in St. Petersburg since the team's inception in 1998.

Al Lang Field is also the most historic ballpark in the Grapefruit League, as the site has been used as a spring-training venue since 1916, when the Philadelphia Nationals first trained here from 1916-1921. Other teams calling Al Lang Field spring-training home include the Boston Braves (1922-1924), the New York Yankees (1925-1937), and the St. Louis Cardinals (1938-1997). The Al Lang moniker dates from the Cardinals years -- 1947, to be exact -- and comes from the original Al Lang, St. Petersburg's local "father of baseball." When the Cardinals left, the Devil Rays became the first MLB team to train in its home town since the 1919 St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Athletics.

The future of Al Lang Field is in doubt. This is the last year the Devil Rays will be training there, and so far no other team has expressed interest in shifting spring operations there.

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