Main entrance to the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville, Aug-2003. |
Peering in from beyond the left-field fence. |
The park overlooks Gator Bowl Stadium as well as harbor bridges. |
Chronological Tour: Stop 255 |
Team president Peter Bragan and his bell. |
Still, its a nice piece of eye candy, looking out at the football stadium and the nearby bridges, and with a church left standing on a corner of the property (it doesnt interfere in any way, as its off the third-base side). It does have a very short right-field porch, at 316 feet. An opposing player got hold of one and put it clear over the stadium, into the ruins of Wolfson Park, which I still mourn.
One feature I liked was the presidents couch and bell. Team president Peter Bragan, his wife, and sometimes a special guest often sat in the couch behind home plate, and Bragan rang an old locomotive bell every time the Suns scored a run. Bragan announced his retirement after the 2016 season, and with it the Suns name was also retired, although the playing surface was dedicated as Bragan Field back in 2012.
A renegotiated lease in 2017 allowed the club to sell ballpark naming rights, and for 2020 they teamed up with 121 Financial (as in one-to-one), a credit union originally established in 1935 to serve the local telephone utility workers. The club itself became the Jumbo Shrimp for 2017, in homage to the coastal harvesting industry.
Game | Date | League | Level | Result |
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629 | Sat 23-Aug-2003 | Southern | AA | Greenville 7, JACKSONVILLE 1 |
1140 | Sun 7-Aug-2011 | Southern | AA | JACKSONVILLE 5, Chattanooga 4 |
1866 | Sat 10-Aug-2019 | Southern | AA | JACKSONVILLE 5, Mississippi 2 |
2026 | Wed 11-Aug-2021 | Triple-A East | AAA | JACKSONVILLE 9, Charlotte 8 |
2076 | Thu 23-Sep-2021 | Triple-A East | AAA | JACKSONVILLE 7, Memphis 6 |
2252 | Thu 22-Sep-2022 | International | AAA | JACKSONVILLE 9, Charlotte 4 |
2291 | Wed 19-Apr-2023 | International | AAA | JACKSONVILLE 10, Nashville 9, 10 inn |
2470 | Sun 21-Apr-2024 | International | AAA | JACKSONVILLE 8, Norfolk 4 |