As the fog and chill in northern Illinois sets in, this terrific cache of photographs from past Spring Trainings will help warm me until March.
Via The Daily Beast.
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| "A St. Louis Cardinals player's spiked foot coming out of sliding pit
during spring training drill at Al Lang Field in St. Petersburg, Fla.,
on March 5, 1955." |
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| "A view of St. Louis Cardinals players during a spring-training game
against the New York Yankess at Crescent Lake Field, in St. Petersburg,
on March 10, 1955." |
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| "The spring before these two had a historic home-run race that
electrified America, Mickey Mantle, left, and Roger Maris of the New
York Yankees did a little bench warming as they visited the
spring-training camp in St. Petersburg. Feb. 25, 1961." | |
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| "Jackie Robinson, first baseman of the Brooklyn Dodgers, returns an
autograph book to a fan in the stands, during the Dodgers' spring
training in Ciudad Trujillo, now Santo Domingo, in the Dominican
Republic, on March 6, 1948." |
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| "Pete Rose of the Philadelphia Phillies runs hard for home plate with
hair flying as he scores the Phils' first run in an 11-1 win over the
New York Mets at Al Lang Field on March 25, 1979." |
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| "First baseman Willie McCovey of the San Francisco Giants stands at the
batting cage waiting his turn to hit, circa mid-1970s, in spring
training in Phoenix." |
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| "March 1960: Members of the St. Louis Cardinals stretch at Al Lang Field." |
1 comment:
that first pic is great, kind of like the one of the cover of Beck's Odelay CD.
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