Spring Training

  • Spring Training: Baseball's Early Season
    By Dan Shaughnessy, Stan Grossfeld

    Ball club owners in the old days liked to think of spring as a time for players to dry out , but drinking generally increased once the fellows reunited at training camp . Money changed hands regularly at poker games , and spring ...

  • Spring Training
    By William Zinsser

    CHAPTER 3 Florida Days On September 19 , 1913 , the president of the St. Louis Browns , Robert L. Hedges , arrived by train at St. Petersburg , Florida , a fishing town of three thousand people , and was met by a deputation from the ...

  • Spring Training
    By William Knowlton Zinsser

    With a new Introduction by the author, this book vividly brings to life the unique once-a-year relationship between Bradenton, Florida, and its adopted team, the Pittsburgh Pirates. 25 photos.

  • Spring Training

    Follows the players and coaches of the Boston Red Sox baseball team as they practice and play exhibition games during their spring training.

  • Spring Training
    By Mark Freeman

    Now the first games of the new season are approaching -- setting the three friends, and their teams, against each other in pursuit of the biggest prize of all: the World Series!

  • Spring training
    By William Knowlton Zinsser

    A life-long baseball fan describes spring training with the Pittsburgh Pirates in Bradenton, Florida, in an account filled with interviews, baseball lore, and information on techniques