Editing Asbury Park, New Jersey (section)

==Surfing and other sports==
Every winter, when the surf grows colder and rougher than in the summer, the city is home to the Cold War, an annual cold water surfing battle.

In 1943, the [[New York Yankees]] held [[spring training]] in Asbury Park to comply with restrictions on rail travel during [[World War II]].<ref>Robinson, Joshua. [https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748703959604576152870084940768 "Six Weeks of Spring Training in...New Jersey?"], ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', February 25, 2011. Accessed June 15, 2014. "For players wearing Yankee pinstripes from 1943 to 1945, 'heading south for spring training,' meant spending six frigid weeks in New Jersey.... The Yankees, frustrated and unprepared, left Asbury Park for good on April 8, 1943—and they were not sorry to get away."</ref>

Asbury Park is the nominal home to [[Asbury Park FC]], described as "Asbury Park's most storied sports franchise and New Jersey's second-best [[Association football|football]] club." The project is a parody of a modern pro soccer team born out of a joke between social media professional and soccer tastemaker Shawn Francis and his friend Ian Perkins, guitarist with [[The Gaslight Anthem]]. Despite never playing games the club has an extensive merchandise line available online, including new and retro replica jerseys.<ref>Schaerlaeckens, Leander. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/sports/soccer/asbury-park-football-club-soccer.html "This Soccer Club Has Everything You'd Want Except ..."], ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 14, 2017. Accessed June 15, 2017. "In most every way, Asbury Park F.C. is like any professional soccer club in the world. It has slick jerseys manufactured by a major sporting goods brand, with a shirt sponsor and a recognizable logo in the club's black-and-white color scheme.... But in one significant way, Asbury Park Football Club is different from every other soccer team: It doesn't actually play soccer."</ref>