Tigers in their town, fair days in Hardee, sweet strawberries

Florida Matters · Feb 19, 2026 · 48m

Florida hosts 15 baseball teams for spring training, but no town has been "all in" and for so long as Lakeland, where the Detroit Tigers have stuck around since 1934.

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