Spaulding and manager Cap Anson decided it would be to their advantage to take their players south to get an early start. The Maissue of Sporting News has an item telling the world that the Chicago White Stockings (later the Cubs) planned to conduct their Spring Training in Hot Springs. I had remembered that there was something about Babe Ruth and Hot Springs. In deciding where to turn in reading about Spring Training history, I chose to explore the Hot Springs connection. I think that it was in hearing of stories from that adventure that encouraged my adding Spring Training to my bucket list for when I grew up. Petersburg, Fla., every other year in March to the St. I had a classmate whose Dad was the town banker. I think there were four teams that went to Arizona, but the majority of teams went to places like St. Back in the days when I was a baseball nerd, almost all big league teams trained in Florida. I was surprised when I first heard that and I have to confess that I really don’t know much about that part of baseball history. I had heard once that Hot Springs, Ark., has a rich history in connection with Spring Training. I decided to satisfy that, at least for now, by simply reading a little of the history of baseball’s Spring Training. It was nice on Sunday and Monday, and I felt those old juices begin to flow.Īttending Spring Training games was one of those things that was perpetually on my bucket list, but I am beginning to concede that such a dream is one that may never get realized. There had been offseason trades, and I wanted to learn as early as I could how the traded players were going to fit in with their new teams. I was a baseball nerd and in February I knew it was time for Spring Training and I started following the results of spring games poring over the newspaper for all the news I could get. As a youngster, I got out my glove and a ball and started playing catch with myself as early as I could. All it takes is one or two really nice days in February to make me yearn for baseball.
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