Terry Park Ballfield, historic site in Fort Myers, Florida, USA
Terry Park Ballfield is a sports venue in Florida along State Road 80. The facility was designed for baseball with standard field layout, dugouts, and spectator seating arranged around the playing diamond.
The Terry family donated about 25 acres of cow pasture to Lee County in 1921, and a wooden grandstand seating 600 was built for Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics in 1925. A 1943 fire destroyed that structure; the park was rebuilt in steel and concrete in 1955. It hosted Pirates spring training for 14 years and the Kansas City Royals from 1968 to 1987, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
The ballfield sits about a mile east of downtown Fort Myers, reached from State Road 80; the entrance is under a green semicircular awning marked "LEE COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION" and "TERRY PARK". The 1955 steel-and-concrete grandstand and field remain in their historic layout, so check with Lee County Parks and Recreation for current access and event times before arriving.
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