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Remembering Our Roots: Looking at Pro Baseball in Tampa Prior to the Rays Part 5

Last offseason here at RCG, I started a series of articles that I thoroughly enjoyed, talking about the baseball players who played professionally in Tampa prior to the inception of the Rays. It was quite…Read More

Remembering Our Roots: Looking at Pro Baseball in Tampa Prior to the Rays (Part 4)

If you haven’t had enough yet, we continue with our series on the professional baseball teams and players who played in the Tampa Bay area before the start of the Rays. There may not have been a…Read More

Remembering our Roots: Looking at Pro Baseball in Tampa Prior to the Rays (Part 3)

We continue with Part 3 of our series on the professional teams and players who played in the area in and around Tampa prior to the creation of the Tampa Bay Rays. In this post we take a look at the 1946…Read More

Rolden Ribble, the Best Name in Tampa Baseball History

In between these long Tampa Bay baseball history posts I’ve been doing (see Part 1 here and Part 2 here), I thought I’d tide you over with the story of a former Tampa minor league player whose…Read More

Remembering our Roots: Looking at Pro Baseball in Tampa Prior to the Rays (Part 2)

Today we continue with Part 2 of our series on the professional players and teams who played in the Tampa area prior to the creation of the Tampa Bay Rays. Even before the advent of the Rays, baseball…Read More