win percentage and a tourney record even better, going undefeated in championship play in 1996, 1998 and 2005. they lost one game in championship play in 1997. They were led by Peter Porcelli, overall coaching record for the Smokers and 3 other teams he coached had teams in the top ten in the world seven times in ten years. Tampa Bay Rays throwback uniforms On July 2, 2011, the Tampa Bay Rays wore Tampa Smokers throwback uniforms to honor the 1951 Florida International League championship team. In a controversial move, the Rays chose to remove the image of a cigar which had underlined the word "Smokers" across the front of the old team's jerseys, calling the resulting "stogie-free" logo a "slightly more contemporary version". See also Baseball in the Tampa Bay Area Sports in the Tampa Bay Area References Sports in the Tampa Bay area History of Tampa, Florida Defunct minor league baseball teams Defunct Florida State League teams Sports teams in Tampa, Florida Defunct baseball teams in Florida Baseball teams disestablished in 1954 Baseball teams established in 1919