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Roger Mooney covers the Tampa Bay Rays for The Tampa Tribune, TBO.com and News Channel 8. He has covered the Rays since their first season in 1998, including 11 years for the Bradenton Herald. Roger has also covered Florida, South Florida and Florida State football, the Bucs and the Lightning.

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Rays to turn back the clock Aug. 13 with the Village People

Posted Jul 1, 2010 by Roger Mooney

Updated Jul 1, 2010 at 03:09 PM

The Rays will turn back to the clock nearly four decades when the Baltimore Orioles visit Tropicana Field on Aug. 13 at 7:10 p.m.  Both teams will wear uniforms circa 1970 and disco icons the Village People will perform a postgame concert. It is the eighth “Turn Back the Clock” game in Rays history.

The Rays will wear the uniforms of the 1970 Tampa Tarpons of the Florida State League and the Orioles will wear all orange uniforms worn twice in 1971, the season that produced an unprecedented quartet of 20-game winners in Jim Palmer, Dave McNally, Mike Cuellar and Pat Dobson.

The Village People have been delighting their fans since 1977. The six-man group scored a number of disco and dance hits, including their trademark “Macho Man,” “Go West,” “In the Navy,” “Can’t Stop the Music,” and their biggest hit, “Y.M.C.A.”  In September 2008, the group received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and at the 2008 All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium they performed a dance routine with the grounds crew. They have sold upwards of 50 million records world-wide.

At all Friday games, themed as Friday Fests presented by Captain Morgan, the first 10,000 fans will receive a collectible T-shirt presented by the St. Petersburg Times. Friday Fests will also include drink and food specials, including the Captain Morgan Blue Storm, special prize giveaways and the Center Field Shuffle, in which all fans will be permitted to walk across the field and exit through the centerfield gate.

Tickets are available at all regular Rays outlets including raysbaseball.com and raysbeisbol.com, the Tropicana Field Box Office, the Rays Tampa Office located at 400 N. Tampa St., all Ticketmaster outlets and via Ticketmaster phone charge at (727) 898-RAYS and (813) 282-RAYS, or by calling 1-888-FAN-RAYS.

Rays Past Turn Back the Clock Days
Date, Uniform worn by Rays
July 17, 1999 - Tampa Tarpons, Florida State League, 1960
May 29, 2000 - St. Pete Saints, Florida State League, 1965
June 17, 2005 - University of Tampa, circa 1960
June 24, 2006 - Tampa Tarpons, Florida State League, circa 1975
June 23, 2007 - St. Pete Saints, Florida State League, circa 1950
June 21, 2008 - St. Pete Pelicans, Senior Baseball League, 1989
July 11, 2009 - Tampa Bay Devil Rays, 1998