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The Ballpark of The Palm Beaches is a baseball stadium located in West Palm Beach, Florida, in the United States. The stadium was built in 2017 and has a maximum seating capacity of 7,600 people ( 6,400 fixed seats with additional grass berm seating for 1,200). After an 18 year absence of Major League Baseball in West Palm Beach, the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals will be sharing the stadium. The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches will host the Houston Astros and Gulf Coast Nationals. ==History== The Houston Astros in Kissimmee, Florida and the Washington Nationals in Viera, Florida complained that their spring training facilities are further away from the other teams in the area. As a result, the two teams decided to build a joint spring training facility in West Palm Beach, Florida. The new facility will have separate practice fields but a shared stadium.〔http://www.palmbeachpost.com/ap/ap/florida/astros-nationals-getting-new-spring-training-ballp/npJ5X/〕 The new spring training facility follows the same model of the St. Louis Cardinals and Miami Marlins. The Houston Astros previously trained at Osceola County Stadium located in Kissimmee, Florida. It was the home stadium of the Gulf Coast League Astros rookie league minor league baseball team of the Gulf Coast League. It was also the spring training home of the Houston Astros. The Washington Nationals conducted spring training in Viera, Florida Space Coast Stadium is a baseball stadium that was completed before the 1994 season as part of a plan to bring spring training for the (then new) Florida Marlins to Viera, Florida. In 2002, as part of an agreement involving the sale of the Montreal Expos by Jeffrey Loria, the Marlins swapped training sites with the Expos, who had been training in Jupiter, Florida. The Expos held two seasons of training at Space Coast in 2003 and 2004 before their reformation as the Washington Nationals, who have conducted spring training at Space Coast Stadium since their inaugural season in 2005. Currently it also hosts the Brevard County Manatees.〔http://www.floridagrapefruitleague.com/teams/nationals〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Ballpark of The Palm Beaches」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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