03188nam 2200565 a 450 991045455570332120200520144314.01-281-98713-197866119871380-19-970731-6(CKB)1000000000715816(EBL)416017(OCoLC)476246528(SSID)ssj0000264064(PQKBManifestationID)11200995(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000264064(PQKBWorkID)10283384(PQKB)11759714(MiAaPQ)EBC416017(Au-PeEL)EBL416017(CaPaEBR)ebr10288262(CaONFJC)MIL198713(EXLCZ)99100000000071581620081210d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrUnder the March sun[electronic resource] the story of spring training /Charles FountainOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20091 online resource (333 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-537203-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-281) and index.Contents; Prologue: Under the March Sun; 1. Myths, Madcaps, and Misbehavior: Spring Training in the Nineteenth Century; 2. St. Petersburg's Mr. Baseball; 3. Spring Training Takes Root; 4. A Sportswriter Helps to End Separate but Hardly Equal; 5. Mr. O'Malley's Dodgertown; 6. The Bottom Line Crowds Out the Box Score; 7. Red Sox Nation Flies South; 8. "Let the Tourists Put in Their Two Cents"; 9. Changing the Dynamic: Lee County and the Twins; 10. Fields of Broken Dreams; 11. Breathing Braves Air; 12. The Chief Big Ho and Car Rentals: The Cactus League Comes of Age13. How the Dodgers Almost Left Vero Beach the First Time14. The Oasis League: Las Vegas Ups the Ante; 15. A Tale of Three Cities; 16. St. Pete Bids Spring Training Adieu; 17. Camelback Ranch; 18. Bottom of the Ninth in Vero Beach; Epilogue: "Go Team, Go!"; Appendix: Major League Baseball Spring Training Sites, 1901-Present; Acknowledgments; Selected Bibliography; Source Notes; IndexThere is nothing in all of American sport quite like baseball's spring training. This annual six-week ritual, whose origins date back nearly a century and a half, fires the hearts and imaginations of fans who flock by the hundreds of thousands to places like Dodgertown to glimpse superstars and living legends in a relaxed moment and watch the drama of journeyman veterans and starry-eyed kids in search of that last spot on the bench. In Under the March Sun, Charles Fountain recounts for the first time the full and fascinating history of spring training and its growth from a shoestring-budget roSpring training (Baseball)Electronic books.Spring training (Baseball)796.357/64Fountain Charles891808MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454555703321Under the March sun2100500UNINA