This image is the cover for the book 100 Years of Baseball on St. Petersburg's Waterfront, Sports

100 Years of Baseball on St. Petersburg's Waterfront, Sports

Step onto the field and bear witness to baseball's outsized impact on Florida's Sunshine City.

Rick Vaughn, Tim Kurkjian

Rick Vaughn is a veteran in the sports communications field having served more than 30 with baseball's Baltimore Orioles and Tampa Bay Rays and the NFL's Washington Redskins. He served as the lead PR executive for the closing of Baltimore's beloved Memorial Stadium and the opening of the iconic Oriole Park at Camden Yards, and the launch of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays expansion franchise and its rebranding to Rays in 2008. He is presently the executive director of Los Angeles Angels Manager Joe Maddon's Respect 90 Foundation.

The History Press