Baseball ⚾️ Math involving the Grapefruit League & the Florida State League involves 25 teams ÷ by 14 Cities / 14 Stadiums 🏟 / 2 levels of Ball and a free standing Daytona Beach ⛱️…

The Grapefruit League is the Major League Baseball ⚾️ home for half the teams (15). The other half play on the West Coast in the Catcus League.

The Florida State League is Class A baseball with 10 teams.

This brings you to the total of 25 teams altogether.

6 of the Grapefruit League teams do not play in the Florida State League. Those six are stand-alone for spring only.

Venice – home for the Atlanta Braves

Sarasota – home of the Baltimore Orioles

Fort Meyers -home of the Boston Red Sox

West Palm Beach – 🏡 of Houston Astros

Port Charlotte – 🏡 of Tampa Bay Rays

West Palm Beach – 🏡 of Washington Nats

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There is just one team in the Florida State League but not the Grapefruit, and it’s not the only way that it is isolated. Daytona does not have any other teams in their part of the state.

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That leaves 9 that play in both circuits.

Using the schedule for tomorrow, here are the ten teams (9 + Daytona) that play.

So 25 is the number of total teams. Now we enter the math phase !

Yes, there are 25 teams, but certainly not 25 parks or cities involved.

The 9 true duplicates drop the numbers down to 16.

The number of cities gets dropped down to 14 because Fort Meyers has 2 teams, and West Palm Beach does as well.

The number of Stadiums 🏟 is even trickier because it goes from 25 to 16 and then – Palm Beach Cardinals of the FSL share the park that Jupiter calls home. Both of the West Palm Beach teams share their parks at 5444 Haverhill Road North.

To visit all of the home parks for the 25 teams, it would require visiting 14 cities and 14 ball parks. 9 parks that one could catch a live game in and 5 where one could just visit.

9 on the Gulf Coast, 4 on the Gold Coast, Lakeland in the center, and to complete the Trek, a runner to Daytona.

107 miles removed from the next closest ballpark. The only brightside to Daytona is that there’s a Buc-ees there !!

The chase to 25 / 14 / 14 /10 (Live) currently sits at not many, and the flight out to Canada is next Friday afternoon.

The League doesn’t play on Mondays, so that leaves Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday to peck away at the list.

I’ve been to Tampa, one of Fort Meyers, and the double up park in Jupiter

You only go to Daytona Beach ⛱️ if it is the last one standing, Lakeland would be next to last.

Baseball ⚾️ Math is Fun !!!