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Avon Park Baseball: the Research Report

The museum today

Confidence: High. Multiple independent sources; visitor details corroborated across three or more.

Visitor facts — safe to publish

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Address 3 N. Museum Ave., Avon Park, FL 33825 [aphs-baseball-museum][fb-depot-grand-opening][visitsebring-depot]
Phone 863-453-3525 [visitsebring-depot][marchofmuseums-depot]
Regular hours Wednesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–3 p.m. [aphs-baseball-museum][fb-depot-grand-opening]
Summer hours (June–September) Wednesday–Friday, 10 a.m.–3 p.m. [visitsebring-depot]
Admission FREE [fb-depot-museum-photos]
Building 1,600 sq ft addition on the south end of the 1926 Seaboard Air Line depot [aphs-baseball-museum][newssun-artist-signs-mural-depicting][newssun-celebrating-avon-park-s]
Baseball wing hours/admission Same as the Depot Museum — one facility, one schedule [aphs-baseball-museum][newssun-celebrating-avon-park-s] (inferred, see below)

Three cautions before this goes on a public page:

  • The summer schedule is the one in effect right now (June–September). A page that publishes only “Wed–Sat” will be wrong for four months of the year. Publish both.
  • Admission is FREE. The museum’s own 2026 promotional graphics state “ADMISSION FREE” in the footer of every card, and one is built around the line “The memories are FREE… it won’t cost you a dime” [fb-depot-museum-photos]. This supersedes the tourism listing’s “by donation” [visitsebring-depot], which appears to be stale or wrong.
  • The baseball wing’s shared hours are inferred, not stated by any source. It is one building on one schedule, but nobody says so explicitly. Confirm by phone before publishing.

What it holds

A full-scale infield laid out on the floor — bases, mound, home plate, foul lines [newssun-celebrating-avon-park-s]. A bat inscribed “To Babe Ruth, Fans in Avon Park,” presented to Ruth in 1928 [aphs-baseball-museum][newssun-celebrating-avon-park-s]. A Lou Gehrig bat described as over a century old, and a Toledo Mud Hens jersey of roughly 75 years [floridafuntravel-museum]. An AI-enhanced Babe Ruth welcome video, video displays with stadium seating, and a weekend pitching gallery [floridafuntravel-museum]. A planned “wall of heroes” [newssun-grand-groundbreaking-ap-baseball].

Outside, two murals by artist Keith Goodson wrap the addition: a 15 × 50 ft Museum Avenue mural of Tom Gordon and Hal McRae, and a 25 × 15 ft youth-baseball mural that includes a tribute to the Lucy Derkman Softball Complex [newssun-celebrating-avon-park-s]. Avon Park High School art students joined a mural kickoff in September 2025; Goodson signed the finished work in November 2025 [newssun-artist-signs-mural-depicting][newssun-celebrating-avon-park-s]. Three baseball bollards went in by the Main Street sign in October 2025 [newssun-celebrating-avon-park-s].

How it got built

Date Event
March 17, 2025 Groundbreaking, attended by Hal McRae and Tom Gordon [newssun-grand-groundbreaking-ap-baseball][newssun-avon-park-baseball-exhibit]
April–May 2025 Site clearing, construction start [newssun-celebrating-avon-park-s]
Summer 2025 Shell complete [newssun-celebrating-avon-park-s]
Sept–Nov 2025 Murals painted and signed [newssun-artist-signs-mural-depicting][newssun-celebrating-avon-park-s]
Feb. 7, 2026 Planned grand opening — did not happen [newssun-celebrating-avon-park-s][newssun-avon-park-baseball-exhibit]
Feb. 27, 2026 Postponement confirmed in print; mid-March projected [newssun-avon-park-baseball-exhibit]
May 9, 2026 Actual ribbon cutting, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. [visitsebring-ribbon-cutting][newssun-avon-park-prepares-open][newssun-play-ball-ribbon-cutting]

The February date was genuine at the time, not a reporting error [newssun-celebrating-avon-park-s]. It slipped because an exhibit vendor failed to deliver: “One company did not give us the product that we wanted so we fired them and started with a new company,” with an interactive television outstanding since December [newssun-avon-park-baseball-exhibit]. The additional slip from mid-March to May 9 is undocumented in any source found.

Roughly 600 visitors attended the opening — the museum’s own estimate [fb-depot-grand-opening]. Crowds were large enough that the exhibit was entered twenty people at a time in ten-minute rotations [newssun-play-ball-ribbon-cutting]. Hal McRae, then 81, and Tom “Flash” Gordon spoke, with emcee David Flowers, Mayor Garrett Anderson, and county commissioners Don Elwell, Chris Campbell, Scott Kirouac and Kevin Roberts [newssun-play-ball-ribbon-cutting].

Money and people

Against a stated $500,000 goal [newssun-grand-groundbreaking-ap-baseball]: $100,000 from the Avon Park City Council, $100,000 from the Highlands County Board of County Commissioners [newssun-celebrating-avon-park-s][newssun-county-oks-100k-baseball], and $10,000 from the Avon Park Noon Rotary Club [newssun-rotary-donates-10-000] — plus 196 citizen and business donors [newssun-grand-groundbreaking-ap-baseball]. That leaves roughly $290,000 unaccounted for in public sources; no final project cost or campaign close-out was found.

Dr. Ron “Doc” Sevigny spearheaded and curated the project [newssun-grand-groundbreaking-ap-baseball][floridafuntravel-museum]; the May 2026 coverage credits Marva Turner alongside him for more than seven years of fundraising [newssun-play-ball-ribbon-cutting]. Nancy Fisk is Historical Society president [newssun-grand-groundbreaking-ap-baseball].

The name — largely resolved

Four names were in circulation, but the museum’s own 2026 brand assets settle the working answer. Its logo — a locomotive inside a baseball — reads “Historical Society of Avon Park · Depot & Baseball Museum,” and every promotional card carries the lockup “AVON PARK DEPOT & BASEBALL MUSEUM” [fb-depot-museum-photos]. “Baseball City” is used as a tagline, not a name (“They call Avon Park Baseball City for a reason”) [fb-depot-museum-photos].

Recommended: Avon Park Depot & Baseball Museum as the institution, Baseball City as the campaign line. The remaining variants — “Baseball City Depot Museum” [visitsebring-ribbon-cutting] and “Avon Park Baseball City Museum” [newssun-avon-park-prepares-open] — look like third-party listing errors and a curator’s informal usage. Worth one confirmation with the board, but no longer a blocker.

The Cardinals in Avon Park, 1927–1929

Confidence: High. Confirmed by an academic source, two independent reference databases, and the Grapefruit League’s own history.

This is the strongest story the museum has, and it is fully documented.

The St. Louis Cardinals held major league spring training in Avon Park for three seasons — 1927, 1928 and 1929 [leib-spring-training][almanac-spring-training-nl][hoc-spring-training-sites][fgl-roar-of-the-20s]. Baseball Almanac’s Cardinals sequence reads Bradenton 1923–24, Stockton 1925, San Antonio 1926, Avon Park 1927–29, Bradenton 1930–36 [almanac-spring-training-nl].

Say 1927–1929, not “the 1920s.” Local sources variously date the arrival to 1925 and to 1926; both are wrong (see §8).

How a town of 3,500 landed a major league camp

Avon Park resident Col. Charles R. Head persuaded his friend Sam Breadon, the Cardinals’ owner, to bring the club to a ballpark the city built for the purpose [fgl-roar-of-the-20s][fhb-cardinals-1927-1929]. The inducement is documented in the academic literature: the city “‘guaranteed’ Cardinal ownership fifteen thousand dollars per year” [leib-spring-training]. The Cardinals arrived as reigning World Series champions, having won in 1926 [fhb-cardinals-1927-1929].

The scale of it is the story. In spring 1928, ten of the sixteen major league clubs trained in Florida across nine cities — Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Clearwater, Bradenton, Fort Myers, Winter Haven, West Palm Beach, and Avon Park [fgl-roar-of-the-20s]. The Grapefruit League’s own history describes “Avon Park in the second of three years hosting the St. Louis Cardinals in the Highlands County town of 3,500” [fgl-roar-of-the-20s]. Spring games sometimes drew crowds larger than the town’s entire population [fgl-roar-of-the-20s].

Avon Park was not an outlier in its era so much as the last of a type. Leib counts eight central Florida spring-training towns between 1923 and 1942 — Leesburg, Orlando, Lakeland, Winter Haven, Avon Park, Winter Park, DeLand and Sanford — accounting for 16% of all spring trainings in those twenty years [leib-spring-training].

March 16, 1928 — the Babe Ruth game

The visiting New York Yankees played the Cardinals at Avon Park on March 16, 1928, before a reported crowd of about 5,000 [fhb-cardinals-1927-1929][wiki-avon-park]. Before the game, Avon Park residents presented Babe Ruth with a commemorative bat inscribed “To Babe Ruth, Fans in Avon Park” [aphs-baseball-museum][fhb-cardinals-1927-1929]. Ruth hit a home run out of the park onto the street just north of it, and the street was renamed Ruth Street in his honor [fhb-cardinals-1927-1929][wiki-avon-park].

Three caveats. The date is contested. Published sources say March 16 [fhb-cardinals-1927-1929][wiki-avon-park]; the museum’s own exhibit label says the bat was presented “at noon on March 17, 1928, prior to the New York Yankee–St Louis Cardinals game at Cardinal Field in Avon Park (now Head Field)” [fb-depot-museum-photos]. The museum is describing the object in its own case, which is strong — but a wall label is not a primary record either. Check a March 1928 newspaper before printing either date, or write “March 1928.” Second, the bat’s dimensions differ between sources — 52 inches and 14 pounds in one account, 57 inches in another; the case label calls it a “rare fan appreciation bat… hand painted on the barrel” and gives no size [fb-depot-museum-photos]. Measure the object. Third, the Ruth Street naming story rests on community memory rather than a documented record (see §8).

Why it ended

When the three-year agreement expired, Breadon moved the camp to Bradenton for 1930–36, citing inadequate hotels and poor field conditions [fhb-cardinals-1927-1929][wiki-avon-park]. Mayor C. S. Donaldson publicly disputed both, pointing to “five excellent hotels” and a completely clayed five-acre playing field with modern facilities [fhb-cardinals-1927-1929]. The Avon Park Hotel had burned in 1927 [newssun-avon-park-home-baseball].

The academic record supplies the likelier reason, and it is more poignant than the public spat: “Officials in Avon Park struggled to make their 1928 and 1929 payments, and in 1930 the Cardinals moved back to Bradenton” [leib-spring-training]. The town won the camp with money it could not sustain.

Do not frame this as small inland towns losing out to big coastal cities. Leib’s paper — the best source on the question — makes no such argument. Its mechanism is purely fiscal: cities bid cash for teams, and a city that cannot keep paying loses the team. Attributing a geographic thesis to it would misrepresent the source. Avon Park is Leib’s own worked example of the fiscal failure mode [leib-spring-training].

Negative findings — publishable as facts

These are firm, and they make the Cardinals story sharper by exclusion:

The ballpark: Cardinal Field → Head Field

Confidence: High on identity and survival; Medium on later tenants.

The city built the park as Cardinal Field to land the Cardinals, and later renamed it Charles R. Head Field for the businessman who drove both the field’s construction and the club’s recruitment [newssun-avon-park-home-baseball][fhb-cardinals-1927-1929][wiki-avon-park].

Correction worth catching before it reaches a wall label: Cardinal Field and Head Field are the same ballpark, renamed — not two fields [fhb-cardinals-1927-1929][newssun-avon-park-home-baseball]. Any copy honoring them as separate venues is wrong.

It still stands and is still in use. The City of Avon Park lists the Head Field Complex, 400 N Anoka Ave — “one baseball field and one practice field” [city-head-field]. It is the home field of the Avon Park High School Red Devils [newssun-avon-park-home-baseball]. That continuity is the best hook the museum has: the ground Babe Ruth hit a home run over in 1928 is where the high school plays today.

A live development worth a sentence on the page: in January 2026, Dee Strange-Gordon — an Avon Park High alumnus and eleven-year major leaguer — sought to purchase Head Field from the Highlands County School Board [newssun-strange-gordon-wants-purchase]. Check the outcome before publishing; this may have moved since.

1930s–40s tenants: Toronto Maple Leafs verified; others unconfirmed

Local coverage states that Head Field hosted the Columbus Red Birds, Toronto Maple Leafs, Toledo Mud Hens, and the barnstorming House of David club through the 1930s and 1940s [newssun-avon-park-home-baseball]. The museum repeats this, and it displays a Mud Hens jersey [floridafuntravel-museum].

Research into contemporary 1930s–1940s sources divides these claims cleanly:

Black baseball in Avon Park: the Black Tigers

Confidence: High on the core facts (SABR); Low on everything around them.

This is the most important thing the research found, and the thing the museum’s public material handles most thinly. It is also better documented than the Society appears to realize — by SABR, an academic-grade source [sabr-mcrae].

Willie James McRae, a day laborer in Avon Park, played for and then managed the Avon Park Black Tigers, an all-Black club in central Florida’s segregated leagues [sabr-mcrae]. His son Hal McRae played for the team as a youth after Sunday church [sabr-mcrae]. Opponents included the Bradenton Nine Devils [sabr-mcrae].

The surrounding facts document the exclusion as clearly as the baseball:

  • Hal McRae was one of ten children [sabr-mcrae].
  • He learned the game on the sandlots of his neighborhood [sabr-mcrae]. (An earlier version of this note placed the sandlot “at Delaney and Castle streets” and cited [sabr-mcrae] for it. The word “Delaney” does not appear in that source; the detail was unsupported and has been removed. [sabr-mcrae] does independently give Castle Street as the street McRae grew up on.)
  • He attended the segregated E. O. Douglas High School in Sebring [sabr-mcrae]. (That it was the county’s only high school open to Black students, and that Avon Park’s Black children were bused there, are not stated in [sabr-mcrae]. Both are plausible and both need a Highlands County school-district source before the archive asserts them.)
  • Castle Street was renamed Hal McRae Boulevard, the street McRae grew up on [sabr-mcrae]. (The street exists and is confirmed named for McRae [newssun-play-ball-ribbon-cutting][newssun-ap-council-approves-paving][osm-avon-park-streets]. The city renamed it at the end of 1991: the Orlando Sentinel of 25 February 1992 reported that “last December the city renamed Castle to Hal McRae Boulevard” [os-1992-02-25-mcrae]. SABR’s date of 1986 rests on a family email written in 2018 [sabr-mcrae]; see Castle Street and the Hal McRae Boulevard Renaming.)

Two things not to do:

  1. Do not call the Black Tigers a Negro League team. No evidence places a Negro National League or Negro American League club in Avon Park or Highlands County. The Black Tigers were a town/semi-pro club. Conflating the two is a factual error and an avoidable one.
  2. Do not treat this as a footnote to the Cardinals story. A camp that came for three springs is well covered; a Black town team that produced a three-time All-Star and MLB manager is the story only Avon Park can tell.

This is also the museum’s best original-research opportunity. The Black Tigers are essentially undocumented online — no roster, no seasons, no home field, no league name. Recovering that would require local newspaper microfilm and family interviews, and the McRae family is the obvious starting point. If the Society wants a reason to apply for a grant, this is it.

The city’s park roster surfaces candidate sites for a segregated-era Black ballfield — Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Field, the MLK Sports Complex, and the Durrah Martin Complex [city-head-field] — but none is confirmed, and the city’s individual park pages were unreadable behind Cloudflare.

The players

Confidence: High — Baseball-Reference school and birthplace indexes, read directly in a browser.

Born in Avon Park: exactly two

Baseball-Reference’s Florida-born index resolves to two major leaguers born in Avon Park [bbref-florida-born]. The museum can state that flatly.

Hal McRae (Harold Abraham McRae), b. July 10, 1945 [sabr-mcrae][bbref-florida-born]. Outfielder/DH. Cincinnati Reds 1968, 1970–72; Kansas City Royals 1973–87. Nineteen seasons, 2,084 games, 2,091 hits, 484 doubles, 191 home runs, 1,097 RBI, .290/.351/.454, 27.9 WAR [wiki-hal-mcrae]. Three-time All-Star (1975, 1976, 1982); 1982 AL RBI leader and Silver Slugger; 1985 World Series champion, and again in 2006 as a coach. Managed 1991–94 (Royals) and 2001–02 (Devil Rays), 399–473. The first African American manager of the Royals and the fifth Black manager in MLB history [wiki-hal-mcrae]. Played shortstop at Florida A&M [sabr-mcrae].

Nick Gordon, b. October 24, 1995 [bbref-florida-born][wiki-nick-gordon]. Infielder/outfielder, and Tom Gordon’s son. Drafted 5th overall by the Minnesota Twins in 2014 — out of Olympia High School in Orlando, not Avon Park High. 2013 Florida Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year. Debut May 6, 2021; Twins 2021–23, Marlins 2024; 338 games, .244/.283/.386, 23 HR [wiki-nick-gordon].

Avon Park High School: two major leaguers, father and son

Tom “Flash” Gordon, b. November 18, 1967 in Sebring — Avon Park High class of 1986, where he once struck out 21 in a game and 46 of 48 across three [wiki-tom-gordon]. Sixth round, Kansas City, 1986. Twenty-one seasons, 1988–2009: Royals, Red Sox, Cubs, Astros, White Sox, Yankees, Phillies, Diamondbacks. 138–126, 3.96 ERA, 890 games, 158 saves, 2,108 innings, 1,928 strikeouts. Three-time All-Star; 2008 World Series champion with Philadelphia [wiki-tom-gordon].

Dee Strange-Gordon (b. Devaris Gordon), b. April 22, 1988 in Windermere — attended Avon Park High [wiki-dee-strange-gordon]. Eleven seasons 2011–22 with the Dodgers, Marlins and Mariners: 1,024 games, .286/.319/.360, 1,118 hits, 336 stolen bases, two-time All-Star. He added his mother’s surname in 2020 to honor Devona Denise Strange, who was killed when he was seven [wiki-dee-strange-gordon].

A distinction the local coverage keeps blurring, and the site should not: Tom Gordon and Dee Strange-Gordon were schooled in Avon Park but born elsewhere. Hal McRae and Nick Gordon were born here. Both are real claims; they are different claims.

Eight who reached professional ball

Baseball-Reference lists eight Avon Park High alumni as professional players [bbref-avon-park-hs]. Beyond Tom Gordon and Strange-Gordon, the standout is Clyde “Pork Chop” Pough — b. December 25, 1969 in Sebring, third round to Cleveland in 1988 out of Avon Park High, sixteen seasons across the minors, the Mexican League, the CPBL and independent ball: 192 home runs and 764 RBI in 1,403 games [bbref-pough]. The others: Tony Gordon (1987, 26th rd.), Tom Smith (1990, 7th rd.), Matt Tindell (1999, 9th rd.), Matt Mercurio (2001, 38th rd.), and Emmitt Money (1967, 24th rd.) [bbref-avon-park-hs].

Pough is the most exhibit-worthy name nobody outside Highlands County knows. A career like that — sixteen years, four countries, no big-league day — is the truer shape of professional baseball than a Hall of Fame plaque, and it is a good page.

South Florida State College: five major leaguers

The junior college in Avon Park quietly out-produces the high school in major leaguers, five to two [bbref-sfsc]:

Ryan Raburn (OF/IF, 2004–17, Tigers/Indians/Nationals; 946 games, .253/.316/.436, 93 HR — the program’s best big-league career), Jesse Litsch (RHP, Blue Jays 2007–11, 27–27, 4.16 ERA), Chris Waters (LHP, Orioles 2008–09), James Hurst (LHP, Rangers 1994), and Darren Clarke (RHP, Rockies 2007) [bbref-sfsc].

The school lists 28 professional players and 24 draft picks between 1976 and 2007 [bbref-sfsc][bbref-sfsc-draft]. Highest picks: Thomas Anderson, 1978 first round, #9 overall (Indians, signed) and Blane McDonald, 1977 first round, #11 overall (Cubs, unsigned) [bbref-sfsc-draft]. The institution was South Florida Junior College (1965–84), then South Florida Community College (1984–2012) [bbref-bullpen-sfsc].

Rick Hitt, head coach since 1999 and athletic director, is the longest-tenured coach in Panther history, has sent 188+ players on to four-year schools or pro ball, entered the NJCAA Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame in May 2022 and the FCSAA Hall of Fame, and served as president of the American Baseball Coaches Association [abca-rick-hitt]. Earlier coach: Tim Hill Sr., 1975–78 [bbref-bullpen-sfsc].

The Red Devils

Avon Park High styles itself “The School of Champions.” The Society’s own centennial banquet credits the baseball program with eight state championships and seven runners-up, in 1948, 1955, 1964, 1966, 1972, 1980, 1984 and 1987 [newssun-aphs-banquet-celebrated-100]. Two local names from that coverage: Ronnie Jackson, undefeated pitcher on the 1964 title team, and Spencer Oberle, who hit a three-run homer in the 1966 championship game [newssun-aphs-banquet-celebrated-100].

Banquet records highlight standout championship performances, including pitcher Ronnie Jackson during the 1964 season and Spencer Oberle in 1966.

Lucy Derkman

Lucy Derkman was a person, not a donor name: sports editor of the Avon Park Sun, and reportedly the first female sports editor in Florida [newssun-celebrating-avon-park-s][visitsebring-derkman-complex]. The city’s softball complex carries her name and appears in the museum’s youth-baseball mural [newssun-celebrating-avon-park-s][visitsebring-derkman-complex].

The “first in Florida” distinction is documented in local features. The municipal softball complex honoring her is situated in north-central Avon Park adjoining North Anoka Avenue and West Winthrop Street.

Surviving physical traces

All three confirmed as currently-named places in Avon Park, FL 33825 [osm-avon-park-streets]:

Place Detail
West Ruth Street ~27.60507 / -81.51044, west terminus at N. Anoka Ave [osm-avon-park-streets]
Hal McRae Boulevard East and West segments crossing US 27; named in a city paving contract [newssun-ap-council-approves-paving][osm-avon-park-streets]
Charles R. Head Field 400 N Anoka Ave, ~27.60309 / -81.51125 [city-head-field][osm-avon-park-streets]

The three sites form a compact geographic cluster in north-central Avon Park, with Head Field situated on North Anoka Avenue, Ruth Street extending immediately to the north, and Hal McRae Boulevard connecting east-west across the district.

References

Where this comes from

Evidence
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unverified — Drafted from sources but not yet checked by a volunteer.
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Sources

  1. Avon Park prepares to open baseball wing Saturday (2026) · newspaper
  2. Play Ball! (ribbon-cutting recap) (2026) · newspaper
  3. Avon Park Baseball Museum — Avon Park Historical Society (2026) · official
  4. United Press, Tigers Play Toronto at Avon Park, Imperial Valley Press (El Centro, Calif.), 10 April 1938, page 4 (1938)
  5. Leoma Bradshaw Maxwell, The First Hundred Years of Avon Park, Florida (references/the-first-hundred-years-of-avon-park_leoma-bradshaw-maxwell_1976.md) (1976)
  6. C. Paul Rogers III, Society for American Baseball Research, Dick Fowler — SABR BioProject (2026)
  7. Brian Morrison, Society for American Baseball Research, Phil Marchildon — SABR BioProject (2026)
  8. Fred Glueckstein, Society for American Baseball Research, Tony Lazzeri — SABR BioProject (2026)
  9. Grand-opening recap (2026) · official
  10. Avon Park Depot Museum partner listing — Visit Sebring (2026) · official
  11. Avon Park Depot Museum — March of Museums directory (2026) · secondary
  12. Avon Park Depot & Baseball Museum — official logo, 2026 promotional graphics, and photographs of exhibit wall labels and the Babe Ruth bat case, published to the museum's Facebook page and the public "Baseball Museum Avon Park" group (2026) · official
  13. Artist signs mural depicting baseball history (John Guerra) (2025) · newspaper
  14. Celebrating Avon Park's baseball history (Diego De Jesus) (2026) · newspaper
  15. Take Me Out to the Baseball Museum — Florida Fun Travel (2026) · secondary
  16. A grand groundbreaking for AP Baseball Museum (2025) · newspaper
  17. Avon Park baseball exhibit grand opening coming soon (2026) · newspaper
  18. Baseball City Depot Museum Ribbon Cutting & Grand Opening — Visit Sebring (2026) · official
  19. County OKs $100K for baseball museum · newspaper
  20. Rotary donates $10,000 for baseball exhibit · newspaper
  21. Jonathan I. Leib, "Major League Baseball's Spring Training in Florida, 1901–2001," *The Florida Geographer* (2001)
  22. Spring Training Sites for all National League Teams — Baseball Almanac (2026)
  23. Spring Training Sites Since 1901 — HistoryOfCardinals.com (2026)
  24. The Roar of the 20s in Two Centuries — Florida Grapefruit League (2026) · official
  25. Jason Byrne, Cardinals Played in Avon Park from 1927–1929 — Florida History Blog (2023)
  26. Avon Park, Florida — Wikipedia (2026)
  27. Avon Park: home of baseball legends (Elaine Levey) (2021) · newspaper
  28. Spring Training Sites for all American League Teams — Baseball Almanac (2026)
  29. Florida State League team index — StatsCrew (2026)
  30. Head Field Complex — City of Avon Park Parks & Recreation (2026) · official
  31. Strange Gordon wants to purchase Head Field (2026) · newspaper
  32. House of David — Baseball-Reference Bullpen (2026)
  33. The Bearded Barnstormers of Benton Harbor — Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan (2026)
  34. Hal McRae — SABR BioProject (Thomas J. Brown Jr.) (2026)
  35. AP council approves paving projects (2021) · newspaper
  36. Nominatim / OpenStreetMap — Avon Park street names (2026)
  37. Hal McRae — Wikipedia (2026)
  38. Players Born in Florida (FL_born index) — Baseball-Reference (2026)
  39. Nick Gordon — Wikipedia (2026)
  40. Tom Gordon — Wikipedia (2026)
  41. Dee Strange-Gordon — Wikipedia (2026)
  42. Avon Park HS baseball players — Baseball-Reference (2026)
  43. Clyde "Pork Chop" Pough — Baseball-Reference minor league register (2026)
  44. South Florida State College baseball players — Baseball-Reference (2026)
  45. MLB draft picks from South Florida State College — Baseball-Reference (2026)
  46. South Florida State College — Baseball-Reference Bullpen (2026)
  47. Rick Hitt — American Baseball Coaches Association (2026)
  48. APHS banquet celebrated 100 years of baseball (2025) · newspaper
  49. Lucy Derkman Softball Complex — Visit Sebring (2026) · official
  50. Orlando Sentinel, McRae Manages K.C. With Eye on a Target (1992) · newspaper

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