The Tampa Bay Rays are a Major League Baseball team that came into the league in 1998. Presently they play in Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. The team logo is a black, green, blue, and gold and features a baseball diamond with “Rays”. The team was originally called the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, but in 2007, the name was shortened to the Tampa Bay Rays.
Notable Tampa Bay Rays of past and present include Wade Boggs, Dwight Gooden, Ozzie Guillen, Fred McGriff, Hideo Nomo, BJ Upton, and Evan Longoria. They play in the American League East Division with such teams as the
Boston Red Sox,
Baltimore Orioles,
Toronto Blue Jays, and
New York Yankees. They won their first World Series title in 2008 after have finishing near the bottom of their division year after year.
