Batter Up

It's Spring Training time in Florida. This year, I'm going to a Toronto Blue Jays game at Knology Park in Dunedin (I've never been, I like rooting for the underdog, and I hear it's a nice place to watch a game). And if I don't go to a L. A. Dodgers game in Vero Beach this year, I definitely will next year, because 2008 will be the team's last year for spring training at Dodgertown.

Here's an assortment of links:

Florida Sports Foundation Spring Training Guide

"Babe Ruth and His Record 'Home Run' at Tampa" (pdf through USF Libraries) by James Covington

Newspaper Articles

"Catch the Crosley Mansion" (Cincinnati Enquirer)

"Boys of Spring" (Miami Herald)

Books

7000 Clams, by Lee Irby

Blackout: The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson's First Spring Training, by Chris Lamb

Baseball in Florida, by Kevin McCarthy