{"id":247675,"date":"2026-04-26T22:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/247675\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T22:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:52:09","slug":"flamingo-park-field-renamed-for-college-baseball-legend-skip-bertman-in-miami-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/247675\/","title":{"rendered":"Flamingo Park field renamed for college baseball legend Skip Bertman in Miami Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 26, 2026 at 6:28 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI BEACH, Fla. \u2014 In America\u2019s pastime, Skip Bertman is a legend in the college game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Now, his legacy will forever be etched onto his hometown baseball diamond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Flamingo Park Baseball Field on Michigan Avenue in Miami Beach was officially renamed this week to Stanley Skip Bertman Field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bertman, who turns 88 next month, graduated from Miami Beach Senior High School in 1956, later returning to the school as a coach and winning a state championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He also played on the field growing up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m proud of the name of this field in particular because I was here so often and played so often here. I had so many friends,\u201d Bertman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He later led the LSU Tigers baseball to five national championships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">To this day, he has the highest winning percentage in postseason play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHere in Miami Beach, he represents a legacy of excellence, leadership and lasting impact on generations of athletes in our community,\u201d said Miami Beach City Manager Eric Carpenter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m so happy and so lucky,\u201d Bertman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bertman smiled as he met friends old and new in the hometown he\u2019ll always treasure.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Byron Tollefson\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/b58c08f2-f400-4245-95df-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Byron Tollefson<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Byron Tollefson joined Local 10 News as a reporter in July 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 26, 2026 at 6:28 PM MIAMI BEACH, Fla. \u2014 In America\u2019s pastime, Skip Bertman is a legend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-247675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}