George Steinbrenner Field

I have been to this field a few times to watch the New York Yankees during the spring training season. The food is overpriced and there aren’t many options — burgers, hot dogs, beer. The parking is on the other side of the road (Dale Mabry) next to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers stadium. I think the parking was $ 10. After you park, there is a walkway that goes over the road (Mabry). It is easy to spot and the walk from the parking to the field isn’t too bad.

Loved going to a spring training tune up game, but hated paying MLB prices for, what is in essence, an exhibition game. Fields and facilities are nice

All the trappings of a Yankee game, without the Bronx price tag and a bonus of clean air! Nothing like catching spring break under the blue Tampa sky while enjoying a COLD beer for only $ 6 and a family chicken bucket that fed 3 to full for less than $ 20 (I don’t recall the exact price). I’m pretty sure that the entire trip, gas, parking, tickets, drinks and food cost less than the price of one nosebleed in NYC… and we were behind the dug out!

Let me get it out of the way that I was a Yankees fan when they did Spring Training in Fort Lauderdale. And in the mid-1990’s, they moved here to Tampa angering lots of the New Yorkers who retired to Southeast Florida. And I found the Florida Marlins.
Nowadays, the New York Yankees do their Spring Training here at George M. Steinbrenner Field and when it’s not their field, the Tampa Yankees play here. It’s meant to bring out memories of the Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, but with fewer New Yorkers and fewer stabbings.
My seat in section 217 on the third-​base line was surprisingly comfortable compared to other minor-​league parks I’ve visited (Birmingham AL and Norfolk VA). I didn’t feel like I was rubbing elbows with my neighbors but a cup holder would sure have been a nice addition.
Plenty of parking people directing traffic and taking $ 10 across the street at the Raymond James Stadium and there was a reasonable police presence here. Surprisingly, no metal detectors or such at the gates and no «gun free» signs. Interesting.
The usual food concessions including nachos and hot dogs and burgers and such. Lots of beer, of course. And quite a lot of vendors working the stands with peanuts and cotton candy and such.
Good visibility of the whole field from where I was sitting. And because the net isn’t the full field, there were at least two close calls from foul balls that landed in the next section over.

We went there for spring training 2016. We had never been to the field prior and didn’t know what to expect. Parking was very easy, parking is at the football field across the street, didn’t take long at all. Entry to the field is quick, plenty of staff who seemed to be very polite. Plenty of vendors with home team merchandise and food and drinks. Seats were clean and the view was good no matter where you sit. Not a whole lot of shade in the 1^st and 3^rd base lines so take sunscreen and extra clothes if it’s gonna be warm because that car ride home is gonna stink.
Great time and we’ll go again.

Atmosphere is amazing to be in! Fees like we are in New York! There was a bit a traffic but worth the drive. Came all the way from Ft. lauderdale. Staff is very friendly and helpful.

This year (mid-​March 2016) we attended a Yankees-​Braves game on a day with a rain delay.
Of course, we found out we couldn’t bring folded umbrellas into the stadium, even though the Steinbrenner Field website says we could bring them, but not open them at the game. We discovered the 25-​cent plastic ponchos sold at the stadium went for $ 8.50, so I can understand why management doesn’t want fans to be able to walk to and from the stadium without getting soaked.
Still, seeing A-​Rod, Tex, McCann and the other Yankees made it worthwhile. Also, it’s great to be among Yankees fans. They’re so loud and rude it’s fun to be around them. Our seats (priced outrageously) were in an area with a lot of season ticket holders, so that made it especially fun. The best thing was that Nick Swisher, the old Yankees right fielder, was playing first base for the Braves. It was wonderful hearing the Yankees fans yelling affectionately at Swisher, «Come back to the Yankees, Nick!»
As at other spring training stadiums now, beer and food are priced like that at the Bigs — beer $ 8 to $ 11, hot dogs $ 6 or $ 7. But the beer was cold and the hot dog was good.
Still, the Yankees won, so it was all good.

I have been here couple of times. I have also been on the field for some practice hitting the balls. Nice experience and good times. Excellent facility, well located and lots of great parking. Wish the concessions had more of a local flair, but over all Steinbrenner Field is a great place to watch a game. Great view from any seat during Spring Training. Neat clean comfortable stadium to watch some spring training. The new video board is a nice addition to the fan experience. Fairly easy to walk around the concourse. Very nice minor league ballpark. Food and beers are decently priced for a professional sports team venue. Finding a ticket however can be challenging depending on the day and opponent.
Be prepared to walk if you park in the parking lots across Dale Mabry /​north of the Bucs stadium. Nice ball park. Good views, good (reasonably priced) food for the venue. great experience to see players up close and personal. Seats are some of the roomier stadium seats, but there are no straws or drink holders anywhere in the stadium. One would think that paying $ 5 for a fountain drink that they could spring for a lid and straw.
The Store Hours Posted on Google are wrong April-​August During the Tampa Yankees Season The store is open non game days 10:00 — 5:30 Monday-​Friday
10:00−3:00 Saturday and Sundays are Closed. Game days Monday — Wednesday 10:00 — 5:30 for the main store then @ 6 the concourse store opens Thursday Friday and Saturday the Store is open 10:00– Game Over Sundays the main store is open two hours before the game then closes once the gates open and the concourse store opens.

Steinbrenner Field is a terrific ball park that doubles as the Spring Training site for the New York Yankees and as the home field for the Tampa Yankees (minor league team).
During Spring Training, the facility is packed with Yankees fans, but ticket prices are very reasonable. The rest of the season, there are amazing deals to be had with the Tampa Yankees organization. Check social media and sites like Groupon for regular deals.
Parking is free. During Spring Training games, fans park in the lot across the street at Raymond James Stadium (Dale Mabry Highway) and walk a pedestrian bridge to the stadium. The rest of the season, there is parking right in front of the main gate.

Very nice facility with friendly staff. Our 1^st time there, it was brightouse customer appreciation night

Been going here a number of years. Love to watch the Yanks during Spring Season training.
Parking: general parking is across the road next to the Bucs stadium. $ 10. You use the walk over to get across Dale Mabry. The one minor problem: you go up the stairs to cross dale mabry, walk across and must go down, walk a little bit, then go up again to get in. (Handicapped entrance is different and closer to the road walk over).
Stadium Seating: better on the 1^st base and behind home plate. 3^rd base side, during the afternoon games, gets the sunshine. Sometimes, it’s quite a lot. Other than that, hardly any bad seats in the place.
Food: a good array of different styles of food and beer. Dogs, Brats, Hamburgers, Steak sandwiches, etc. But, as with all stadiums, a bit pricey.
Go back: once a year, maybe twice.

The location is great, right across from ray jay. The stadium itself is kept pretty clean as well as the bathrooms. I don’t think there is really a bad seat. Our seats were behind home plate and pretty close to the field.
What I dislike is that true to most stadiums, you are at the mercy of food and drink prices since they don’t allow even a water bottle. At $ 4 for water, $ 8 for beer, you can spend a lot of money for an afternoon at the park. Makes no sense to me that you can’t bring bottle water into park as their security check is pretty lame.
Speaking of parking, that will cost an additional $ 10 cash only.

This is a great place to watch a game if the weather is good. Make sure you have a seat in the shade, or it can be brutal. Also, bring insect repellent in the spring/​summer.
Parking is across the street by Raymond James stadium. I paid $ 10. There’s a walkway over Dale Mabry. I have heard you can park on the street west of Dale Mabry, but I can’t verify.
Food in the stadium is pretty pricy given this is a place for spring training and/​or the minor league.

Ok, so I actually worked for the Yankees when this stadium opened two decades ago. Spent a number of spring training, minor league games and concerts inside the windows high above home plate where I made some lifelong friends.
Attending the St. Patrick’s Day spring training game this year against the Jays, I can easily observe that the facility doesn’t look much different than in 1995. (The only real difference is the large video board beyond left center field… which for some reason is not used to keep score. Instead there’s a high school quality baseball scoreboard to the left of that and it looks out of place.)
The Yankees have always made a priority in Tampa, and of course New York, of cleanliness and customer service for fans that come out to the games.
While the stadium hasn’t aged, that doesn’t mean some things couldn’t be improved after 20 years and that starts with the poorly designed path to enter the ballpark if you park on the east side of Dale Mabry in the lots north of the football stadium.
A majority of baseball fans do park here and walk across the pedestrian bridge where they have absolutely no way to conveniently enter the ballpark, unless they are disabled. Instead, and its been this way for 20 years, these fans must walk twice as far and go down a ramp only to go back up steps to enter the stadium directly behind home plate.
You would think after two decades, the Yankees would have admitted the design flaw and actually created a gate in that first base/​right field corner near the bridge. Especially since you are allowed to EXIT the stadium that way without any objection from ushers who turned you away just 2 – 3 hours earlier.
For night games, the 200 level sections get progressively darker the further they are from home plate. I cannot remember an outdoor sporting event involving a major pro sports team where there was so little illumination in a general seating area after sunset. It just felt way too dark to me and that’s because the stadium lights directly above those sections are blocked off by the overhang.
Just because it is exhibition baseball doesn’t mean you get any break on concessions. Food and drink is priced at what you would pay for most other professional sporting events in the Tampa Bay area… although I do like that both Lee Roy Selmon’s and Westshore Pizza sell their fine fare inside the ballpark.
Even though Didi Gregorius and not Derek Jeter was playing shortstop, everything else about attending Yankee spring games here has been very consistent for the life of the stadium. Much of that is familiar and comfortable, but some obvious upgrades would be nice.

Great stadium for Spring Training games! Good concession stands and good food! Always a good time spent here

I got a groupon for a seat and some food. You can only use the food coupon in one spot — –all the way down the right field line. Our seats — -all the way down the left field line. For many of the older and handicapped patrons, this was a real inconvenience! I realize I got a deal, but it’s not much of a deal if your dead before the game starts.
Stadium is very nice.

One of my favorite spring training venues I frequented on my baseball park tour. Had a lot of bells and whistles than other venues. The design is a mini version of the actual Yankee stadium.

As far as fields go, it is on the small side, but appears that almost all seats have pretty good views. The seats are the usual uncomfortable stadium seats, but what can you do.
The cons are defiantly parking some distance away & paying too much to get your car doors hit my the tiny parking places. The food, in my opinion is much better at Ray Jay.
I love going to ball games here & being in the middle of the action and excitement. To me, it is a thrilling experience to watch live sports, with like minded fans! Stadium staff is wonderful, but at times a bit slow. It has taken me over 30 minutes just to enter the stadium, ah the things we do for sports! Overall an enjoyable & fun time, but it will not be an inexpensive experience.
Try it and enjoy! The stadium is located on North Dale Mabry, just South of MLS Blvd. & across the street from Raymond James Stadium (did they chanel the name of that?), you can’ miss it.
What’s a girl to do? We like our baseball & need a baseball fix from time to time… don’t Fogel the hot dog.

NEVER, EVER, EVER go here for a concert. Heck, at this point I don’t think I would ever go here again for ANYTHING.
Someone had the bright idea of Steinbrenner Field hosting the Carnivores tour with AFI, 30 Seconds to Mars and Linkin Park and that person frankly should be slapped. Lets start at the beginning…
It only took us about 15 minutes to cross the bridge from Pinellas, get off at the airport exit, turn on Spruce and make a right onto Dale Mabry. We were ahead of schedule at this point and gates hadn’t opened yet. The second we got on Dale Mabry EVERYTHING stopped. There was no direction on where you should go for parking. There were cars merging everywhere. There were no cops except at the entrance to the parking which was at Raymond James. By the way, due to lack of signs, we missed that entrance and had to go up a block, around, back down and park in an even farther away Raymond James parking lot (by the big Bucs flag). It took us 45 minutes to park. So, basically: parking at George Steinbrenner stinks.
Hoping that we were through the worst of it, and hearing that AFI was already performing, we hauled butt across the street, through the parking lots, up the stairs and to the walkway. We get to the walkway and there is a line all the way across it. Several people are just walking around the line and luckily we decided to do the same thing. There was no security, no direction, nothing. So, we didn’t really know why some people were standing there and others weren’t. Eventually we all came to a stand still. They had everyone walking all the way across the back of the stadium and back up stairs before you could get in. To say the wait was ridiculous was an understatement. I felt really bad for the people that tried to wait in a line and got in even after us.
We were FINALLY in and we only got to see 1.5 AFI songs. Boo. I really wanted to see them. The view was AWFUL. We had seats since I can no longer do pit with my many injuries. The stage was TINY and way in outfield. There was basically a huge gap in between pit and the seats. They even had to set up more speakers in the baseball diamond because we were so far away. Crap view. I am glad I paid for the cheaper seats because I would have been mad if I had spent more money for basically the same view. Not to mention the fact that there wasn’t a single employee monitoring the seats. We could have sat anywhere. They also had all of the people in the pit coming through our section to go down into the field and out into the pit. So, it was really hard to get to our seats.
There was not a single employee to be found the first half of the concert (other than those working concessions). We finally saw some cops and eventually security guards, but they were few and unhelpful. My Husband joked that he could have walked in with a whole bottle of jack because no one even looked at us coming in. He came in with a Red Bull.
I also couldn’t find anyone to ask about the bathroom. I ended up having to walk to the other end of the stadium (which is far when it is so packed) to pee. The bathroom stall was DARK and some of the stalls were already out of toilet paper. This was BEFORE 30 Seconds to Mars went on (they were the 2^nd band). We tried to order from the concession stands and found out they were EXPENSIVE and cash only. All we could afford was a soda. Ugg.
Luckily, Jared Leto and 30 Seconds to Mars are freaking amazing. They helped the entire crowd have a fun night despite the fact that we were all hot, exhausted, frustrated and had a crap view. I will not be back to this stadium again. I definitely do not recommend it for a concert.

So the Yankees really miss the mark on fan friendly stadiums. While the ushers are truly wonderful here – who doesn’t love grandparents?– Steinbrenner Field follows typical Yankee protocol.
1) You are not allowed to take pictures from the concourse.
2) There really isn’t anything for children to do. (And I really don’t understand why people bring kids under age 4 to a ball park)
3) the food options are mediocre and expensive. This park is used for spring training, yes, it is still MLB, but other parks are so much cheaper. $ 8 for a crappy burger, $ 9.00 for a sausage. $ 5.00 for a pretzel. The park operates as a single A ball park when not used as a spring training facility. Not really sure why food isn’t discounted like at other minor league parks or spring training facilities.
4) the craft beer stand had Miller Lite. Since when is that craft beer? You can find it if you walk over to the bar in right field. I drank a land shark for $ 7.50.
5) tickets are expensive compared to other Grapefruit League teams. $ 35.00 to sit up top. $ 60.00 to sit behind the dugout.
6) Parking is a nightmare. It is really tight in the grassy area behind the Bucs stadium.
7) they don’t let you move down behind the dug out or home plate. Movement is restricted, which is typical of the Yankees. This organization really doesn’t give a crap about the fan experience.
8) Parking is $ 10. At other parks, it is from $ 5-​$ 7. This is just another way to price gouge.
I am going to have to say that I probably won’t be back. I will just stalk my team at other parks in the Grapefruit League. The experience is better. The staff at other parks allows player interaction and provides more opportunities to get up close and personal with the players.
The Yankees only care about one thing: making money. And that is evident at all of their ball parks, except for the Thunder and Staten Island Yankees where you can actually have a real fan experience.

Not a bad venue to take in a spring training game. This was our first, as I’ve never been near a spring training facility before. Parked across the street on the grass by Ray J and walked on the overhead across Dale Mabry. Pretty wide and comfy seats, clean restrooms, and not bad choices for concessions. I was actually somewhat surprised with the options (Westshore Pizza, Boars Head Deli, other stands with standard ballpark fare). There was also an ok beer selection. There were the big (disgusting) three plus blue moon, Stella Artois, Sierra Nevada, and some other better looking brews. My only complaint on the day is that the big names didn’t play today, because they apparently needed to rest from playing on yesterday (except for Jeter & Ichiro). That however is not Steinbrenner Field’s fault, so that doesn’t take anything away from this review.