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Updated at 9:04 a.m., Wednesday, April 22, 2009

MLB: Florida's Dodgertown complex to house Minor League Baseball

Associated Press

VERO BEACH, Fla. — Dodgertown has a new tenant.

The governing body for Minor League Baseball agreed to a five-year contract Wednesday to take over operations of the storied Dodgertown complex in Vero Beach. The deal with Indian River County and Vero Beach will bring high school and college tournaments and camps for players and umpires to the facility, but there will still be no major league team for spring training.

This past spring was the first time in 61 years that the Dodgers did not occupy the facility. They left for an $80 million complex in Glendale, Ariz., that they share with the Chicago White Sox.

Vero Beach had been the spring training home of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers since 1949. Minor League Baseball is based in St. Petersburg, Fla.