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.

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.

Coughlin spent his year as " head coach without a team " preparing for the personnel moves that would come from the expansion draft, free agency, and the rookie draft in the spring of 1995.

The coil twists, pushing against the spring, and moves the pointer.

As fuel is replenished the diaphragm moves out due to fuel pressure and a small spring, closing the needle valve.

The half-hour 16mm film was shot over the winter of 1930 in the logging woods and shows logging in the forest with hand tools and horses, then moves to the spring log drive, with loggers using peaveys to break up log jams on icy rivers as the logs are moved from the forest to the mill.

As the spring flowers bloom and the prairie comes alive with new settlers, the Ingalls family moves to their new piece of land and begins building what will become their permanent home.

In this version, the single top arm, protruding straight out from the front, moves up and down, anchored traditionally with a rope and heavy weight ( the origin of the namesake ) and anchored with a spring to the rear in modern times.

The barrel is then returned by a spring and moves the drum operating rod, breaking the tight seal between the barrel and the drum to revolve.

The spring actually contains water from the Danube which moves through karst caves underneath the European watershed.

Owing to the geometry, the upward force is proportional to the displacement which decreases as the flat spring moves downward.

As the flat spring moves downward the upward force of the curved spring reduces causing the motion to accelerate even in the absence of further motion of the actuator until the flat spring impacts the normally-open contact.

Even though the flat spring unflexes as it moves downward, the switch is designed so the net effect is acceleration.

As the flat spring moves, the force from the curved spring increases.

When the jars reach their firing point, they suddenly allow one section of the jar to move axially relative to a second, being pulled up rapidly in much the same way that one end of a stretched spring moves when released.

Upon pulling the trigger, this moves forward under the pressure of a strong spring and strikes a curved plate of hardened steel ( called simply the steel, or in 17th century English dialect the frizzen ) to produce a shower of sparks ( actually white-hot steel shavings ).

The spring both holds the position of the axle as the axle moves ( flexure bearing ) and provides force to support the vehicle ( springing ).

During spring training in 2001, Mark McGwire told Cardinals ' manager Tony La Russa " If you don't put on the roster for the 2001 season, it might be one of the worst moves you make in your career.

When the trigger is pressed, the Hellfire device disengages the trigger return spring, which moves the operator's trigger finger.

In the late spring and early summer the mountains and areas below to the south are subject to occasional intense sundowner winds, a type of foehn wind in which the air is heated adiabatically and dried as it moves downslope.

On March 29, 1865, in the opening moves of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's spring offensive, Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan marched with the army's cavalry followed by the V Corps toward Dinwiddie Court House, to turn the right flank of Gen. Robert E. Lee's Petersburg defenses.

When the pistol is discharged, as the breechblock moves to the rear and the slide rails travel back in the receiver guides, the cross-beam at the forward end serves to compress the recoil spring against the frame.

The barrel moves forward until its muzzle emerges from the barrel housing, compressing the recoil spring.