The Milwaukee (later Atlanta) Braves played their first spring training game at the new West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium on March 9, 1963. The Kansas City Athletics, featuring local boys Haywood Sullivan and Dick Howser, defeated the Braves 3-0. Warren Spahn was the losing pitcher.
The stadium was demolished in 1999. (1968 Palm Beach Post file photo)...
Byron Goldenhersh, who moved with his family to the West Palm Beach area in 2005, asks about Yamato Road. "Why would Boca Raton name a road after one of the most infamous battleships the Japanese ever built?" he asks. Right nation, wrong era. Yamato is an ancient name for Japan, and it appears many times in Japanese history, including on the side of one of the two largest battleships ever built. She was sunk 200 miles north of...
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