DAYTONA BEACH — As Major League Baseball adapts to its pandemic-shortened 60-game season, a Daytona Beach business has become ground zero for Tampa Bay Rays fans.
With no crowds allowed in ball parks, the Rays and other teams have turned to selling oversized cutouts of fan photos to populate grandstands and offer an entertaining diversion amid the disruptions of the coronavirus pandemic.
At Tropicana Field, home of the Rays, those graphically generated fans are the creations of DME Visual, a Daytona Beach wide-format printing company.
The company already has produced about 1,500 of the 18-x-30-inch photo cutouts that the Rays debuted recently in a game against the Boston Red Sox in St.