Miracle/Minnesota Twins Baseball

Category: Sports

Hammond Stadium may be best known as the spring home of the Minnesota Twins, but it's also home to the Fort Myers Miracle of the Florida State League. Located on the southern edge of Fort Myers, the ballpark is clearly geared to the Twins and spring training, but the Miracle team draws well (at least by Florida State League standards), and the place isn't so overbuilt that you won't feel alone in the ballpark attending a Miracle game in the summer.

The ballpark is much simpler than you'd expect by looking at the two photos above. It's a single-deck ballpark with all the seating between the foul poles. All concessions are located in back of the grandstand, which means you'll miss the action if you sneak away for a cold one. (In fact, you might as well make an outing of it: the bar at the end of concourse on the third-base line is a nice place to hang out for an inning or two.)

The most notable thing about the ballpark, interestingly enough, is the ballpark's exterior, which puts a Florida facade on a pretty ordinary ballpark. The Twins draw well in spring training because a) Minnesotans are pretty sick of winter by the end of February and b) there's a spillover effect thanks to the Boston Red Sox also training in Fort Myers, as Red Sox fan cram in as much baseball during spring as they can and flock to Hammond Stadium when the BoSox are out of town.