Cactus League Spring Training for Baseball
Our baseball pro, Steve Holm is now in Scottsdale, Arizona, for spring training. The catchers and pitchers check in earlier than the rest of the team, and begin the marathon of games. It’s the beginning of the season, and the hopes for minor league ball players to move up to the major leagues. Here big leaguers and minor leaguers work out and play side by side. For players, there are a lot of unknowns…..many times, they don’t know where they’ll start the season until the day they actually leave the spring training facilities.
The Sunday editions of the San Jose Mercury News and the San Francisco Chronicle highight the annual ritual of spring training in Arizona for the Bay area major league teams. Many fans from the Bay area fly down to Phoenix to enjoy the games which are in smaller stadiums, with lower ticket prices than the regular season. Games between the Chicago Cubs and San Francisco Giants are quite popular! We went one year, and thoroughly enjoyed the experience, though the sun was intense……lots of sunscreen!
Host mom, Jean
Filed By: Jean Bedord | February 20, 2007 |
