Overheard on the Web, and other Web links From The Herald's Research Editor
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Indians in Florida
In a delicious piece of irony, it's reported that the Cleveland Indians may be leaving their spring training facility in Winter Haven. Interstate4Jamming has the links. Apparently the team wanted a new facility, and wanted public funding, and the city wanted to make money off the existing property.
Seems so appropriate after the Indians abandoned the spring training facility the City of Homestead built for them years ago: they say it was because the stadium was destroyed in Hurricane Andrew, but to my recollection it came through just fine after a bit of rebuilding. I went to a motocross show there not long after and was impressed by the facility. Too bad. Homestead seens to be booming, and a beautiful baseball stadium still sits unused most of the time. Maybe the Indians should think about coming back!
It's interesting that the Lakeland Ledger story says that there was hurricane damage to the current stadium, but that doesn't have anything to do with the team's displeasure.
(Via Florida Blog.) posted by liz at 2:21 PM
Elisabeth (Liz) Donovan was a Herald librarian for 10 years, and Research Editor for 13 years. She came to The Herald in 1981, following several years at the
Washington Post. She started blogging in 2000, with a news research blog, followed by the blog at Herald.com in 2003. A frequent speaker and writer on news research, she was honored in 2004 by the
News Division of the Special Libraries Association for her contributions to
the field.
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