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Baseball in Hot Springs (Images of Baseball)
Baseball in Hot Springs - Images of Baseball Author:Mark Blaeuer Hot Springs, Arkansas, with its thermal water baths, attracted its first big-league outfit when the National League champion Chicago White Stockings traveled south for spring training in 1886. The baseball colony grew as dozens of other clubs followed. Individual players flocked here as well to hike, golf, and boil out in bathhouse steam cabinet... more »s prior to leaving for training camps elsewhere. Nearly half of Cooperstowns Hall of Famers made the pilgrimage to this baseball mecca. Major- and minor-league aggregations, legendary teams, players of the Negro Leagues, and baseball schools for budding players and umpires all come to bat in Images of Sports: Baseball in Hot Springs.« less