This was just Richard's way of saying that last year the Birds opened spring training with a lot of jobs wide open.

Hansen will be getting a late spring training start, which might very well set him back.

-- The flavor of Baltimore's Florida Grapefruit League news ripened considerably late today when the Orioles were advised that Ron Hansen has fulfilled his obligations under the Army's military training program and is ready for belated spring training.

`` So I started practicing on it in spring training.

The state has been a frequent spring training site since 1946.

This was after a great deal of lobbying by the Maricopa County Sports Authority, a local group formed to preserve Cactus League spring training in Arizona and eventually secure a Major League franchise for the state.

In 2011, they also moved their spring training base from Tucson to a new stadium near the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale.

It would be his last game ; during spring training the following year he developed glaucoma, which ended his career.

The team's spring training facility is at Goodyear Ballpark in Goodyear, Arizona.

The team suffered a tragedy during spring training of, when a boat carrying pitchers Steve Olin, Tim Crews, and Bob Ojeda crashed into a pier.

WMMS will air the Indians if the conflict occurs spring training, or if the Cavs are in the playoffs.

Longtime infielder / manager Phil Cavarretta, who had been a key player during the ' 45 season, was fired during spring training in 1954 after admitting the team was unlikely to finish above fifth place.

In spring training, moves continued: LF Gary Matthews and CF Bobby Dernier came from Philadelphia on March 26, for Bill Campbell and a minor leaguer.

The Colorado Rockies have had Hi Corbett Field as their spring training home for many years.

Young ( far left ) with ( L to R ) Jake Stahl, Bill Carrigan and Michael T. McGreevy during spring training in 1912.

By habit, Young restricted his practice throws in spring training.

One year, while covering spring training in Texas, he met Pancho Villa in a bar in Texas and later accompanied the unsuccessful American expedition into Mexico searching for Villa.

Work on the field was completed only weeks prior to spring training.

The next spring, however, the army emerged from Valley Forge in good order, thanks in part to a full-scale training program supervised by General von Steuben.

Greenberg received his bonus at the end of spring training.

Without the benefit of spring training, he returned to the Tigers, was again voted to the All-Star Team, and helped lead them to a come-from-behind American League pennant, clinching it with a grand slam home run in the dark — no lights in Sportsman's Park in St. Louis — ninth inning of the final game of the season.

Woody Williams had retired after a 0-4 spring training and Jason Jennings was now with Texas.

On the other side of the roster, the Astros would start without Kazuo Matsui, who was on a minor league rehab assignment after a spring training injury.

On March 13, 1954, Milwaukee Braves left fielder Bobby Thomson fractured his ankle while sliding into second base during a spring training game.

During a spring training game in 1968, Bench was catching the eight-year veteran right-hander Jim Maloney.

Smith believed he had earned the position with his spring training performance, but La Russa disagreed, and awarded Clayton the majority of playing time in the platoon situation that developed, where Smith typically saw action every third game.

La Russa said, " I think it's fair to say he misunderstood how he compared to Royce in spring training ... When I and the coaches evaluated the play in spring training — the whole game — Royce started very slowly offensively and you could see him start to get better.

Though a pilot was shot in the spring of 1955, the game did not move to television until 1959.

During a spring training game against the Chicago White Sox in 1963, the Reds ' regular second baseman, Don Blasingame, pulled a groin muscle ; Rose got his chance and made the most of it.

During another spring training game against the New York Yankees, Whitey Ford gave him the derisive nickname " Charlie Hustle " after Rose sprinted to first base after drawing a walk.

During the harsh winter, whole communities would move to hunting areas, seeking the deer, rabbit and other game that kept them alive until the spring fishing season.

American pioneers thought that “ a handful of violets taken into the farmhouse in the spring ensured prosperity, and to neglect this ceremony brought harm to baby chicks and ducklings .” On account of its place in American hearts, a game called “ Violet War ” also arose.

The Dykhouse is located in the north endzone of Coughlin Alumni Stadium and was opened in the spring 2010 following the spring football game.

In the spring of 1922, Babe Ruth and other members of the New York Yankees played an exhibition game there.

Moreover, the game is supposed to start in the spring of 1942, but Japan is immediately in position to attack Hawaii again, while Germany is pressed well into the Soviet Union with an initially superior force.

In those games, the player must switch between the parallel past and present worlds ( Ages ) and between spring, summer, autumn and winter ( Seasons ) to progress through the game.

The Missouri were a semisedentary people with a major village along the Missouri River in northern Saline County, Missouri ; they lived at the village primarily during the spring planting and fall harvesting seasons, while pursued game at other time.

Kōfuku-ji recovers its control over the province for a short time at the surrender of the South Court in 1392, while the internal power game of the temple itself opened a way for the local samurai clans to spring up and fight with each other, gradually acquire their own territories, thus diminishing the influence of Kōfuku-ji overall.

On March 14, 2000, in a spring training game — by definition unofficial — the Red Sox used six pitchers to retire all 27 Toronto Blue Jays batters in a 5 – 0 victory.

* In the spring of 1999 Zombie Nation released a remix of game musician David Whittaker's Lazy Jones ( originally written for the SID in 1984 ) under the title Kernkraft 400.

* On March 2, 2008, Citytv Toronto aired its first known baseball game, a Toronto Blue Jays spring training game, against the Cincinnati Reds.

He dates the first game to spring 1986 at the Psychology Department of Moscow State University, spreading to classrooms, dorms, and summer camps of Moscow University.

In the spring following that same winter, on April 14, 1983, the Metrodome roof deflated because of a tear caused by a late-season heavy snow, and the scheduled Twins ' game with the California Angels was postponed.