The First Boys of Spring is a 2015 documentary about Hot Springs Spring Training. Since 2010, major league baseball teams have been divided between Arizona and Florida during spring training. All but six of the major league. teams have gone to spring training in Florida, with 15 teams in Arizona.
About Spring training in brief
In Major League Baseball, spring training is a series of practices and exhibition games. Teams that train in Arizona form the Cactus League and Florida-training clubs form the Grapefruit League. Spring training by major league teams in sites other than their regular season game sites first became popular in the 1890s and by 1910 was in wide use. Hot Springs, Arkansas, has been called the original \”birthplace\” of spring training baseball. The First Boys of Spring is a 2015 documentary about Hot Springs Spring Training. The film was narrated by actor Billy Bob Thornton, an area native, and produced by filmmaker Larry Foley. The documentary began airing nationally on the MLB Network in February 2016. Since 2010, major league baseball teams have been divided between Arizona and Florida during spring training. All but six of the major league. teams have gone to spring training in Florida, with 15 teams in Arizona. Many of the most famous teams have trained in Florida at one time or another during the spring. Many teams have hosted more than half of the spring training teams through 2009 of the big league teams. The Philadelphia Phillies were the first of the current major-league teams to train in Florida in 1913, when they spent two weeks in Jacksonville, Florida in 1889. The Detroit Tigers are credited with being the first team to conduct spring training camp in Arizona in 1929. The Cleveland Spiders, Detroit Tigers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers, and Boston Red Sox followed the White Stockings to Hot Springs in the 1880s and 1890s.
The St. Louis Cardinals in Hot Springs and Tulsa, Oklahoma; the New York Yankees in New Orleans and later Phoenix, Arizona, when the team was owned by Del Webb; the Chicago Cubs in Los Angeles when owned by William Wrigley Jr. ; the St. Louis Browns and later the Kansas City Athletics in San Diego and then in West Palm Beach, Florida. The Pittsburgh Pirates in Dawson Springs, Kentucky around 1915 and Honolulu, while other teams joined in by the early 1940s. Except for a couple of years during World War II, when travel restrictions prevented teams training south of the Potomac rivers and Ohio rivers, many of the more famous spring training sites have been in Arizona or Florida since the 1950s and 1960s. In some years, teams not scheduled to play on Opening Day will play spring training games that day. Pitchers and catchers report to springTraining first because pitchers benefit from a longer training period. A few days later, position players arrive and team practice begins. Exhibition games usually begin in late February. Spring training typically starts in mid-February and continues until just before Opening Day of the regular season, which falls in the last week of March. The first time Babe Ruth played first base in a spring training game was on St. Patrick’s Day, 1918, as it was the first time Ruth had ever played any position other than pitcher. Ruth responded by hitting two home runs that day in Hot springs, with the second being a 573-foot shot that landed across the street from Whittington Park.
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