Progress Energy Park (full name Progress Energy Park, home of Al Lang Field) is a 7,227 seat baseball stadium located on the downtown waterfront of St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. The park, constructed in 1947, is named in honor of Al Lang, a former mayor of St. Petersburg who helped to bring professional baseball to the city. The facility was the spring training home of several different Major League Baseball teams and the regular season home of several Florida State League minor league teams over the past few decades, most recently from 1998 to 2008 by the Tampa Bay Rays and their class-A affiliate, the St. Pete Devil Rays. Vacant since the spring of 2008, it was announced that the Tampa Bay Rowdies of the North American Soccer League would use the park as their home stadium for the 2011 and 2012 seasons.
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