Memorial Stadium, Sanford, Fla.

Memorial Stadium

Entrance plaza to Sanford Memorial Stadium, Aug-2012.

A look at the seating from next to the first-base dugout during an amateur game.

The view from behind home plate.

Quick Facts:

Location: Mellonville Avenue north of Celery Street, Sanford, Fla.
Opened: 1926 (stadium built 1951, renovated 2001)
Home team: Sanford Celeryfeds (1926-28, 1946), Lookouts (1936-39), Seminoles (1940-41, 1947), Giants (1948-51), Seminole Blues (1952), Cardinals (1953, 1955), Greyhounds (1959-60), Florida State League; Seminole County Naturals, Florida Winter Baseball League (2009); spring training, New York Giants (1940s-50s), Boston Braves (1950s)
Capacity: 2,015

Sanford Field was first used in 1926, and it became a spring training site as early as 1942. The city built Memorial Stadium in 1951 to honor veterans of the two World Wars, and it continued as a spring training site during that decade.

The park was rebuilt extensively in 2001; I am not sure if any of the original stadium structure still exists. The local Babe Ruth League uses the field today; it is also home to the Sanford River Rats of the Florida Collegiate Baseball League, a college summer league. The park is less than a mile from Lake Monroe, a swelling of the St. Johns River.

Game	Date	League	Level	Result
77	Mon 26-Jul-2021	Florida Collegiate	College Summer	Winter Park 7, SANFORD 3
80	Mon 13-Jun-2022	Florida Collegiate	College Summer	Leesburg 6, SEMINOLE COUNTY 5

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