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Spring Training

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Baseball (MLB), spring training is a series of practices and exhibition games preceding the start of the regular season. Spring training allows new players
Famously, on St. Patrick's Day, 1918, a successful young pitcher for the Red Sox named Babe Ruth was forced to play an emergency game at first base in a spring training game against Pittsburgh. This game possibly changed the course of baseball history, as it was the first time Ruth had ever played any position other than pitcher. Ruth responded by hitting two home runs that day in Hot Springs, with the second being a 573-foot shot that landed across the street from Whittington Park in a pond of the Arkansas Alligator Farm and Petting Zoo. The Red Sox took notice and soon Ruth was playing the field more often. Over 130 Major League Baseball Hall of Famers, including Ruth, Anson, Cy Young, Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Walter Johnson, Rogers Hornsby, Mel Ott, Dizzy Dean, Jimmie Foxx, and Stan Musial, trained in Hot Springs. The First Boys of Spring is a 2015 documentary about Hot Springs Spring Training. The film was narrated by actor Billy Bob Thornton, an area native, and produced by filmmaker Larry Foley. The documentary began airing nationally on the MLB Network in February 2016.
  • Spring Training game between the Cleveland Indians and Los Angeles Dodgers at Vero Beach, Florida, 1994, by Rick Dikeman 02:41, Uploaded 10 February 2004 . . Rdikeman . . 300×202 (23 KB)

    Spring Training game between the Cleveland Indians and Los Angeles Dodgers at Vero Beach, Florida, 1994, by Rick Dikeman 02:41, Uploaded 10 February 2004 . . Rdikeman . . 300×202 (23 KB)

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  • Left to right: Olaf Hendrikson, Larry Gardner, Buck O'Brien, Heinie Wagner, Steve Yerkes and Hugh Bradley boarding train. Players for the Boston Red Sox boarding a train in Hot Springs, AR during spring training

    Left to right: Olaf Hendrikson, Larry Gardner, Buck O'Brien, Heinie Wagner, Steve Yerkes and Hugh Bradley boarding train. Players for the Boston Red Sox boarding a train in Hot Springs, AR during spring training

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  • The roster of the 1885 Chicago White Stockings (known today as the Chicago Cubs) Top row, left to right: George Gore, Silver Flint, Cap Anson, Sy Sutcliffe, King Kelly, Fred Pfeffer Bottom row, left to right: Larry Corcoran, Ned Williamson, Abner Dalrymple, Tom Burns, John Clarkson, Billy Sunday

    The roster of the 1885 Chicago White Stockings (known today as the Chicago Cubs) Top row, left to right: George Gore, Silver Flint, Cap Anson, Sy Sutcliffe, King Kelly, Fred Pfeffer Bottom row, left to right: Larry Corcoran, Ned Williamson, Abner Dalrymple, Tom Burns, John Clarkson, Billy Sunday

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  • English: American baseball player Babe Ruth, publicity photo, 1919, Boston Red Sox

    English: American baseball player Babe Ruth, publicity photo, 1919, Boston Red Sox

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