Tampa Bay Times reporters describe what it’s like at Steinbrenner and around Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg.

TAMPA, Fla. — The Tampa Bay Rays season opener ... working to install 3,000 pieces of Rays art work, clearing out the gift shop to make way for Rays team apparel and merchandise, and installing ...

Rays fans have started early on opening day, playing hooky from work and crowding downtown St. Petersburg with a sea of team ...

This takes the cake as the single-best promotional item in all of baseball this season. Few bands resonate with a team and a ...

Workers take down a New York Yankees sign from the team store at Steinbrenner Field on March 24, 2025, ahead of the Tampa Bay Rays' season opener ... Dozers of workers in yellow Rays shirts busied ...

And the sod work done by director of special projects and field operations Dan Moeller and his crew, cutting out Yankees logos and replacing them with the Rays’. Get the latest from the Tampa Bay Rays ...

Their giveaway items include tropical shirts ... the Tampa Bay area. The roof is in tatters, with pieces hanging from the catwalks and others scattered in the stands, and the sunlight is streaming ...

Left homeless after Hurricane Milton destroyed the Tropicana Field roof on Oct. 9, the Tampa Bay Rays began their season as ...

The team announced in November it would play its 2025 season at George M. Steinbrenner Field following the devastation from Hurricane Milton.

And quickly. Very quickly. “We had to be highly organized and be able to get in and go on Sunday night,” said Bill Walsh, the Tampa Bay Rays’ chief business officer, who met with the media ...

After significant damage to Tropicana Field during October hurricanes, the Tampa Bay Rays are playing their 2025 home games at George M. Steinbrenner Field, the spring training facility for the team's ...