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PITTSBURGH -- As is tradition, the Pirates shipped out their equipment truck to LECOM Park for Spring Training this week. But this tradition goes a little bit further back than for other teams.
What is today called LECOM Park in Bradenton, Fla., has existed for 98 years, wearing many names throughout the years, including City Park, Braves Field then -- its longest-tenured title -- McKechnie Field. It has hosted the Braves, the Phillies, the Red Sox, the Cardinals, the Royals and the Athletics before the Pirates stepped in and took it for the long haul.
If you factor in Ninth Street Park, which occupied the plot before the current park was built, more than a century of baseball has been played at the location.