He has also homered in The Ballpark at Disney's Wide World of Sports, near Orlando, Florida, a usually minor-league and Spring Training park that hosted a regular season series between the Rangers and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in May 2007, although he did not hit a homer at the two regular season games the Cubs played at the Tokyo Dome in 2000 vs. the Mets.

Category: Orlando Rays players

Category: Orlando Rays players

Category: Orlando Rays players

They went on to play in the Southern League Championship series where they were defeated by the Orlando Rays, three games to one.

Category: Orlando Rays players

Category: Orlando Sun Rays players

Category: Orlando Rays players

Category: Orlando Rays players

In 1990, the team was renamed the Orlando Sun Rays.

While still a Chicago Cubs affiliate, the team renamed itself once again in 1997 and became the Orlando Rays.

The Tampa Bay Devil Rays, an American League expansion team in 1998, assumed the Orlando Rays ' major-league affiliation the following year.

Orlando Rays

The Orlando Rays ' last season at Tinker Field was 1999.

From 2000 to 2003, the Orlando Rays played in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, in Champion Stadium at Walt Disney World Resort.

While in Orlando, the franchise won three Southern League championships: in 1981 ( as the Twins ), 1991 ( as the Sun Rays ), and 1999 ( as the Rays ).

Along with sister network Fox Sports Florida it is the cable home to the NBA's Orlando Magic and Miami Heat, the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning, and MLB's Tampa Bay Rays.

Category: Orlando Rays players

Category: Orlando Rays players

Category: Orlando Rays players

Category: Orlando Rays players

Before the 2004 season, the affiliated Orlando Rays of the Southern League moved to Montgomery, Alabama, the location of a key Southeastern League franchise.

FBI records show that 85 % of COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed " subversive ," including communist and socialist organizations ; organizations and individuals associated with the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Congress of Racial Equality and other civil rights organizations ; black nationalist groups ; the American Indian Movement ; a broad range of organizations labeled " New Left ", including Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen ; almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, as well as individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation ; the National Lawyers Guild ; organizations and individuals associated with the women's rights movement ; nationalist groups such as those seeking independence for Puerto Rico, United Ireland, and Cuban exile movements including Orlando Bosch's Cuban Power and the Cuban Nationalist Movement ; and additional notable Americans — even Albert Einstein, who was a member of several civil rights groups, came under FBI surveillance during the years just prior to COINTELPRO's official inauguration .< ref >

In 1965, the team applied to the American Football League to join that league, but were turned down ( as the New York metropolitan area already had both the Jets and NFL's Giants, both of which counted North Jersey as their market and would eventually move to New Jersey in later years ), and instead joined the upstart Continental Football League, where it played one season in 1965 before moving to Orlando, Florida, acquiring an existing franchise in the Southern Professional Football League that had been in place since 1962, and becoming the Orlando Panthers.

However, controversy has emerged following a report by the Orlando Sentinel where it was revealed that the SEC controlled who it would play " every two years "; as such, Conference USA champion Southern Miss was not chosen for the bowl ( as they normally would have been ).

In their first year, they drew big crowds to their home games as they became the second team other than the Orlando Predators or Tampa Bay Storm to win the AFL's Southern Division.

By 1971 Southern was operating flights into New York City and Chicago and as far south as Orlando and Miami.

In addition to the original New York City-based dorkbot (" dorkbot-nyc "), current and planned groups exist in London, Bristol, Ghent, San Francisco, Linz, Melbourne, Sydney, Mumbai, Seattle, Rotterdam, Lisbon, Sofia, Chicago, Southern California, Barcelona, Switzerland, Orlando, Madrid, Oxford, Detroit, Newcastle, Mexico City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland, Oregon, Austin, Dallas, Baltimore, Washington, DC, Atlanta, Georgia ( at Georgia Tech ), Bahia, Beijing, Eindhoven, Toronto, Tokyo, Vienna, Copenhagen, Montevideo, Milan and Alba ( Scotland ) ( the current list, and map, can be seen at dorkbot. org ).

The team was originally named the Orlando Suns, but due to objections from the Southern California Sun the name was changed once again, to the Florida Blazers.

In addition, the company owns The Slate Group, Express, El Tiempo Latino, The Gazette and Southern Maryland newspapers, The Herald ( Everett, WA ), Post-Newsweek Stations ( Detroit, Houston, Miami, Orlando, San Antonio and Jacksonville ), Cable ONE — a cable TV and Internet service provider with subscribers in midwestern, western, and southern states — and Avenue100 Media Solutions, an online lead generation provider.

The franchise joined the Southern League in 1973 as the Orlando Twins, a minor-league affiliate of the Minnesota Twins, which held spring training in Orlando, Florida at the time.

On August 22, 2004, the City of Orlando evicted the Seals and they were forced to sit out the first season of Southern Professional Hockey League play for 2004 – 2005 as a result.

State Road 417 ( SR 417 ), also known as the Central Florida GreeneWay, Southern Connector and Seminole Expressway ( depending on the location ), is a tolled freeway forming the eastern beltway around the city of Orlando, Florida, United States.

* Central Florida Greeneway, Southern Connector, or Seminole Expressway, Orlando

Gaetti then spent the next three years in the Twins ' minor league system, playing for the rookie level Elizabethton Twins in the Appalachian League in 1979, the A-level Wisconsin Rapids Twins in the Midwest League in 1980, and the AA-level Orlando Twins in the Southern League in 1981.

Ringling College of Art and Design is a private four-year accredited college located in Sarasota, Florida that was founded by Ludd M. Spivey as an art school in 1931 as a remote branch of Southern College, which had been founded in Orlando during 1856.

Artists who have referenced Panther Burns as one of their influences include the American alternative music artists Southern Culture on the Skids, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Jack Oblivian, the Royal Pendletons, and The Gories, as well as lesser known regional artists like Tampa's Barons of Love and Orlando band leader Aaron Jarvis.

It serves as primary home to one of South Africa's most famous football sides, the Orlando Pirates, and the exclusive home of Jo ' burg's two professional rugby union teams, the Lions in the Southern Hemisphere Super Rugby competition and the Golden Lions in the domestic Currie Cup.

Taylor was also an Orlando Sentinel Super Southern Team selection, the No. 1 athlete on the Florida Times-Union Super 75 list and rated the No. 1 player in Florida by The Gainesville Sun.

He has also served as principal conductor of Southern Ballet Theatre ( now Orlando Ballet ) and has guest conducted with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, Naples Philharmonic, and the Florida Orchestra.

Southern Airways served Monroe with Douglas DC-9-10 jet flights to New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Memphis, Chicago, Orlando and other destinations.