THE CACTUS LEAGUE - Spring Training 2005
It's that time of year again… a time when adults and children alike
skip work or school and sneak out to watch one of the twelve major league teams
that hold spring training in the Arizona desert. Although those quaint old
ballparks isolated out in sleepy desert villages have been replaced by modern
state of the art complexes in the booming metropolitan areas of Phoenix and
Tucson, there's still nothing that compares with languishing in the stands at
an Arizona Spring Training game on a warm, glorious, sun-soaked March
afternoon.
In the past, major league teams viewed Spring Training as just a
necessary business expense to get their teams ready for the regular season.
Today, Spring Training in Arizona is big business. Tourism officials have made
a concerted effort to entice fans from the far reaches of the country. Their
success has resulted in crowds of 10,000 plus being the norm, and an economic
impact on the state in excess of 200 million dollars annually.
But still it's great fun. True, you can no longer walk up to the
ticket booth minutes before a game and get a seat right behind the dugout, but
the ballparks are still small enough and intimate enough to give everyone the
feeling of being part of the game. If you're planning to attend one of the
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