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3 unusual facts about Jaycee Park


Jaycee Park

The Pirates were a special business rate to stay at the Shamrock Village, a former Navy training base that had been converted at a cost of $1.5 million into 150 efficiency apartments and 44 motel rooms.

The field was located near U.S. Route 1 on the site occupied now by the city's police headquarters.

Branch Rickey, the Pirates General Manager, visited several prospective spring training locations for 1954.



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