Baseball Fans, Spring Training Starts Soon
February 17, 2011 9:45 AM You can count on Americas Funniest Videos to get ya into the spirit.
I went to wikipeda to get the details about baseball’s Spring training and here’s what I’ve found out.
In baseball, Spring training is a series of practices and exhibition games preceding the start of the regular season. Spring training allows new players to try out for roster and position spots, and gives existing team players practice time prior to competitive play.
Spring training typically lasts almost two months, starting in mid February and running until just before the season opening day (and often right at the end of spring training, some teams will play spring training games on the same day other teams have opening day of the season), traditionally the first week of April. Pitchers and catchers report to spring training first because pitchers benefit from a longer training period due to the exhaustive nature of the position. A week or two later, the position players arrive and team practice begins. Teams will normally wear their batting practice uniforms for the duration of spring training and only first putting on their normal jerseys for the season opener.
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