Dodgers Spring Report

Vero Beach is trying to avoid joining Brooklyn as a former home of the Dodgers.

With the team considering moving its spring training home to Arizona after 50 years in Dodgertown, the Florida House Tourism Committee approved a bill 8-1, that would essentially allow the Dodgers to stay in their current spring stadium, but not own it.

The bill would authorize the use of a county tourism tax--a tax on hotels and motels--to go toward acquisition of a stadium. Under state law, that money now can be used for stadium construction and renovation, but not the purchase of an existing stadium.