Standout Spring Training Stadiums
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Get in the game with a visit to these intimate ballparks.
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A staple for many big-league clubs, the winter caravan, is on display throughout the USA. For example, the Arizona Diamondbacks are touring the state with their 2001 World Series trophy while some of the New York Mets rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.
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TAMPA, Florida  - The New York Yankees' spring training stadium Legends Field has been renamed for owner George Steinbrenner, the team said on Thursday.
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Sports teams are putting high technology into stadiums to attract fans, generate cash and improve standings.
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This is what spring training is for: codgers congregating in the sun, agitating and trading gossip. Nothing much has changed in more than a century of training in the warmer climes.
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Big arena, lots of players, stories at every turn. A week covering a tournament like the Deutsche Bank Championship leaves some lasting impressions. Just a sampling of the sights carried with me from this year's tournament at TPC Boston:
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Usually, the start of spring training is a time of clean slates, sun-splashed fields and endless hope. Not this year. Steroids were the No. 1 topic Tuesday, when the new Washington Nationals, the New York Yankees and the Cincinnati Reds opened camp.
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Verizon Communications Inc. would seem to be a prime candidate to snap up a luxury suite at the $440 million ballpark being planned for Washington's Major League Baseball team.
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Joe Torre sat behind the manager's desk, and George Steinbrenner was surrounded by cameras as he limped down the tunnel outside the clubhouse at Legends Field. The Yankees were back in business Tuesday, opening spring training after another of their typically tumultuous offseasons.
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US Cellular Field had some of the familiar trappings of a Marlins game at Pro Player Stadium. And the Marlins even enjoyed some home cooking.
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One by one, more than 80 players seated on a back field of the Padres' spring training complex stood and gave their names and where they were last season.
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The sun was shining and the temperature was perfect. A beautiful Southern California mid-November day. The Kansas City Wizards versus DC United for the MLS Cup in the best soccer stadium in the land.
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NEWPORT BEACH, California  - Pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka has done his homework for next month's spring training with his new Boston Red Sox team mates.
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By Jon Paul Morosi, Detroit Free Press  Feb. 17--LAKELAND, Fla. -- They gathered beside Joker Marchant Stadium in the Friday morning chill, a great circle of pitchers and catchers, coaches and management. A gray-haired man stood in the middle.
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By Monday, the right-field bleachers at Miller Park were sold out in anticipation of Barry Bonds's 700th homer while many of the best field-level seats remained.
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A packed Skydome on a beautiful autumn  evening and the New York Yankees in town for a season-ending  three-game homestand against the Toronto Blue Jays, painted a  perfect baseball picture.
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The sun is always shining, or so it seems, when baseball teams gather in Florida and Arizona to begin spring training, as they're doing this week. Everyone is undefeated; hope abounds.