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.

After the victory of Loktantra Andolan in the spring of 2006, a unicameral interim legislature replaced the previous parliament.

The palace of Versailles in the spring of 2006.

In the spring of 2006, Lansky took an old folk song and various ingredients of hip hop music and created " Chatter of Pins.

On September 30, 2006, the Nationals ' management declined to renew Robinson's contract for the 2007 season, though they stated he was welcome to come to spring training in an unspecified role.

* The eastern seafront skyline of Bari had, until spring 2006, been dominated by the monsterous apartment complex known as Punta Perotti – a creation of the Matarrese construction empire.

In spring 2006, she appeared in the short-lived WB series Modern Men.

On 27 April, Marseille and Barthez agreed to a two-and-a-half-year contract which would keep him at the club until spring 2006.

During September 2006, PBS in the United States aired a series of programs videotaped in Branson during the spring of 2006 ; these shows include the last recorded performances of the complete Original Comets line-up including Grande.

At least one recording for the spring 2006 series filled all its seats within three hours of the free tickets being made available, and the London recording of the autumn series in that year sold out in ten minutes.

The Mind of Bill James, a biography-cum-chronicle of James's works was published in the spring of 2006.

The channel was bought in spring 2006 from its former shareholders Spiegel TV and " dctp ".

( Hobart left after the 2004 spring season, to join the ECAC Lacrosse League, while Villanova left after the 2006 spring season.

Rosenborg's woes continued in the spring of 2006.

This resulted in an outcry from Manchester City fans who coordinated an SOS (" Save Our Sven ") campaign ( similar to the Official England Fan's campaign in the spring of 2006 ) including a well attended march from the City centre to Eastlands stadium and a flood of letters to the club and the Manchester Evening News.

The groundbreaking ceremony for the University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy and downtown health sciences campus was officially held on March 15, 2006, and the facility opened in spring 2009.

In the spring of 2006, McFadden appeared in a series of television commercials for Microsoft.

The cat trail was last used in the spring of 2006 by miners still working claims.

The discovery in the spring of 2006 of a French " petit blanc " ( small white ) silver coin inserted into a cut out in the stempost / keel join was a major step forward.

The Indians, who had held their spring training in Tucson, Arizona, for many years until moving to Winter Haven, Florida, in 1993, agreed to return their spring training location back to Arizona on December 21, 2006.

In the spring of 2006, the United States Department Of Homeland Security announced that Flora would be considered as a site for the construction of the National Agro and Biodefense Facility, which is expected to be operating in the year 2011.

Best Yet Supermarket left in late 2005 and the store was remodeled and opened again in the spring of 2006 as Ravena Shop ' n Save ( supplied by Hannaford ).

In 2006, he contributed to the spring edition of the Black River review published by the Jefferson Community College, it included his poem Jekyll and Hyde.