West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium

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West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium was a ballpark in West Palm Beach, FL that hosted both minor league teams and spring training games.

It opened in 1962 to replace outdated Connie Mack Field and soon attracted major league tenants, with the Milwaukee Braves making it their spring home. They were soon joined by the Montreal Expos who first trained here in their first season as part of the expansion of 1969, before moving to Daytona Beach, FL a couple of years later. However, the association with the Expos would last much longer.

From 1965 to 1968, the West Palm Beach Braves of the Florida State League played in the ballpark, then were replaced in 1969 by the West Palm Beach Expos of the same league, who stayed here until 1997 - the longest run of any Montreal Expos minor league affiliate. In 1998, the Expos and St. Louis Cardinals inaugurated a new state-of-the-art spring ballpark in nearby Jupiter, FL, Roger Dean Stadium which the two teams shared both as spring home and as the home of their respective affiliates in the FSL. In the meantime, the Expos had returned to the ballpark for spring training in the late 1970s, and remained there until the end of 1997.

After the ballpark was demolished in 2002, there was no other ballpark in West Palm Beach until the opening of The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches in 2017.

The first game played at the ballpark was a spring training game between the Milwaukee Braves and Kansas City Athletics on March 9, 1963.

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