Crescent Lake Field, the Yankees spring training site since 1925, is renamed Miller Huggins Field in honor of the team’s late manager, who passed away at the end of the 1929 season. In 1963, the facility will be called Huggins-Stengel Field, to honor another Bronx Bomber skipper, Casey Stengel, who is now piloting the National League’s expansion team which is working out in the St. Petersburg ballpark.

On February 15, 1931 — Crescent Lake Field, in St Petersburg the Yankees spring training site since 1925, is renamed Miller Huggins Field in honor of the team’s late manager, who passed away at the end of the 1929 season. In 1963, the facility will be called Huggins-Stengel Field, to honor another Bronx Bomber skipper, Casey Stengel, who is now piloting the National League’s expansion team which is working out in the St. Petersburg ballpark.

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