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Joker Marchant Stadium

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Joker Marchant Stadium is a baseball field located in Lakeland, Florida. The stadium holds 8,500 people. It is the spring training home of the Detroit Tigers, as well as the regular season home for the minor league affilate Lakeland Tigers. Baseball is a team sport, in which a fist-sized ball is thrown by a defensive player called a pitcher and hit by an offensive player called a batter with a round, smooth stick called a bat. ... Lakeland is a city located in Polk County, Florida. ... The Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team based in Detroit, Michigan. ... The Lakeland Tigers are a minor league baseball team based in Lakeland, Florida. ...


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Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland - Detroit Tigers Spring Training (1402 words)
The beneficiary of the team's loyalty is funny-named Joker Marchant Stadium, which has been the centerpiece of Tigertown, as the Lakeland complex is known, since 1966.
Joker Marchant was Lakeland's longtime director of public works and recreation and was responsible for the maintenance of the stadium.
Perhaps the most striking feature of the stadium is the large grandstand section down the left field foul line, which was built in 1988 and increased Joker Marchant's original seating capacity of 4,900 to 7,027.
Joker Marchant Stadium (953 words)
The new stadium situated on 17 acres of land adjacent to Tigertown, and cost nearly $500,000 to build.The clubhouse alone was a $50,000 project, housed in a just off of right field.
The personable, unassuming Marchant was thrilled by the honor, and so on March 12,1966 before a capacity crowd, the new stadium was officially dedicated as Joker Marchant Stadium.
Marchant's dedication to Lakeland stemmed back to 1925 when he arrived to attend Florida i Southern College as a football player.
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