They played in Thompson's Stadium, a cozy minor-league park in the neighborhood that gave them their name.
Their ballpark reminds me of a minor-league park.
Although Mahaney Diamond was a very suitable college baseball field it was simply not designed to be a permanent minor-league park.
He's committed $112 million to two minor-league parks already, and we'll never get it back.
Supporters of the project said they thought that the city's real fear was that building Sportsplex could delay the construction of the minor-league park.
Spring training for generations brought a migration of fans, and minor-league parks, for much of the century, lit up both Florida coasts.
In a typical minor-league park, fans can also carry on one of baseball's most cherished rituals: a conversation.
Projected costs, when you toss in two minor-league parks also being planned, run as high as $2 billion.
Whatever the current problems, real or imagined, of the major leagues, baseball itself is flourishing in minor-league parks across the country.
To be located anywhere, the field would be a minor-league park and tourist attraction.