Tampa Bay Devil Rays

The Tampa Bay Devil Rays are a Major League Baseball team based in St. Petersburg, Florida. The team is in the East Division of the American League. The team was added to the league in 1998 as an expansion team, and currently plays its home games in Tropicana Field. They are one of a few teams to have never played in the world series and the only never to have been in the playoffs.

Although the Devil Rays are one of baseball's youngest franchises, the Tampa Bay area has had a long history in professional baseball dating back to 1913. It was then that the Chicago Cubs moved their spring training site to the city of Tampa. St. Petersburg became a spring training host for the first time in 1922 when the Boston Braves came to town. Since that time, more major league spring training games have been played in St. Petersburg than any other city.
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