Editing Vero Beach, Florida (section)

===== Historic Dodgertown =====
Vero Beach is home to [[Historic Dodgertown]], which initially started operations during World War II as a U.S. Naval Air Station, and later served as the [[spring training]] facility of the [[Brooklyn Dodgers]] and successor [[Los Angeles Dodgers]] baseball teams,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Reisman|first1=Laurence|title=How'd writer know March 31, 1948, would be 'biggest day' in Vero Beach history? Dodgers?|url=https://www.tcpalm.com/story/opinion/columnists/laurence-reisman/2023/03/29/hindsight-shows-why-brooklyn-dodgers-1st-vero-beach-game-was-big-deal/69934516007/|access-date=April 2, 2023|work=[[TC Palm]]|date=March 29, 2023}}</ref> until 2008. After the team's departure for a new Spring home in Arizona in 2008, it has served as a year-round multi-purpose facility for athletes of all ages. As of January 2, 2019, [[Major League Baseball|MLB]] has assumed control of the historic facilities with plans to expand the complex and rename it The Jackie Robinson Training Complex. This is to honor both the late [[Jackie Robinson]] and the site's history as the first racially integrated spring training center in the American South.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mlb.com/press-release/historic-dodgertown-renamed-jackie-robinson-training-complex|title=Former Dodgers Spring Training site in Vero Beach to be renamed Jackie Robinson Training Complex|website=MLB.com|language=en|access-date=October 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191009181348/https://www.mlb.com/press-release/historic-dodgertown-renamed-jackie-robinson-training-complex|archive-date=October 9, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Los Angeles Dodgers spring training at Holman Stadium, Dodgertown, 1994.jpg|thumb|Vero Beach had been the [[spring training]] home of the [[Los Angeles Dodgers]] since 1948. The Dodgers left Vero Beach in 2008 for Glendale, AZ.]]