110 years ago…
August 28, 1896 – Tampa’s baseball team arrives home from a road trip in Gainesville, Florida. The teams split the two game series, with Tampa winning 4-3 in five innings on August 26th and Gainesville coming out on top the following day. The second game was not without controversy, with some of Tampa’s players claiming that one of the umpires, who was from Ocala, cost them the game through his “unfair decisions.”
Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.
