I have lived in Jacksonville, Florida since December of 1980.
I had never been to a minor league ball park except for a 1978 Detroit Tigers Spring Training game in Lakeland, Florida, home of Joker Marchant Stadium.
The Lakeland Flying Tigers are the current home team, and the Lower Single "A" affiliate of the Tigers.
I went to my first minor league game in 1981, in downtown Jacksonville, to old
Wolfson Park, where the Jacksonville Suns played their…
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