Terry Park

Entrance to Park T. Pigott Stadium in Terry Park, Aug-2003.

The seating bowl.

The ground crew gets the field ready for an amateur game after a rainstorm.

• Location: Palm Beach Boulevard (FL 80) between Terry and Palmetto avenues, Fort Myers, Fla. (map it using Google Maps)
• Opened: 1925 (stadium rebuilt 1955, 2005)
• Home team: Fort Myers Palms, Florida State League (1926-27); Fort Myers Royals, Florida State League (1978-87); Fort Myers Sun Sox, Senior Professional Baseball Association (winter 1989-90); spring training: Philadelphia Athletics (1925-36), Cleveland Indians (1941-42), Pittsburgh Pirates (1955-68), Kansas City Royals (1969-87)
• Capacity: 3,000 (approx., 1955-2004; highest paid attendance, 5,351, March 1961)

During the Kansas City Royals years, the main field featured artificial turf, just as Royals Stadium did. Several years after the Royals left for Baseball City, the turf left as well. The facility, featuring a total of four baseball diamonds, now sees year-round amateur baseball use.

The Fort Myers News-Press reports as of July 2004 that the 1955 grandstand has been removed, but the old girders have been retained as the outline for a new grandstand to open in 2005. The new stadium will seat about 900, as the additional bleachers down the foul lines have been removed. A spring training museum is also being considered for the park.