For those of you who have never been to a major league baseball game live, you don't know what your missing. Southwest Florida is known for being a baseball town, as we have 2 teams that hold Spring Training right here in Fort Myers. The Minnesota Twins and the Boston Red Sox have held spring training here every year for decades, and it's been a part of the social scene here forever. Recently, the Red Sox and the city of Fort Myers have come together to give us a brand new baseball stadium for Red Sox spring training. JetBlue Park!
JetBlue Park sits in the heart of SWFL's travel district right across from Southwest Florida International Airport and next to the highly sought after community of Gateway. The field takes you right to Boston, as JetBlue is the exact same dimensions in every way to Fenway Park, the Red Sox' regular season home. It is full of the most high tech equipment and modern amenities a baseball park can have. Other features from the ballpark in Boston that are present in the spring training stadium are the triangle, Pesky's Pole, and the famous Lone Red Seat that marks the longest home run hit in the Fenway's history. The facility also holds a development league area that City of Palm's Park, the Red Sox' old spring training home, could not hold. It boast's 6 practice fields, one of which is the exact dimensions of the field at Fenway Park, as well as a state of the art, 50,000 sqft locker room.
But baseball is not the only thing that goes on at JetBlue Park. The addition of a large baseball stadium gives SWFL a place to hold many event, concerts, festivals, circus', and even high school and college sports championships. And with a capacity of 11,000 screaming fans, the opportunities are endless. They even offer daily tours as well as being open 7 days a week to buy tickets, shop, eat at one of their restaurants, or even take a tour of the stadium.
So stop by JetBlue when you get the chance. You might catch baseball fever!
