The Tampa Bay Rays and Miami Marlins are among Major League Baseball teams that assembled Friday in ballparks nationwide for a three-week “summer camp” to prepare for a 60-day season beginning July 24.

But this year will mark the first summer since 1907 that minor league baseball will not be played in Florida.

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