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How skateboarding inspired the Rays City Connect jersey

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Tampa Bay is widely celebrated for many things — pristine beaches, excellent cigars, Cuban sandwiches — but when the average person thinks of the Tampa Bay area, skateboarding isn’t something that would typically come to mind.

And the Tampa Bay Rays are here to educate you on that point.

“What if we used this platform to tell a completely different story?” Rays VP Warren Hypes asked at the City Connect debut press conference. “That story is the skateboard culture in Tampa Bay.”

Colloquially known as the Bro Bowl, one of the world’s first publicly provided skateboard park is a key part of Tampa Bay’s history.