The view of the baseball field at Hammond Stadium from the stand behind home plate My husband recently re-retired, and we are front-loading travel. My #AtoZChallenge posts this year will explore our adventures—some pre-retirement, some post. Today’s location: Spring Training. I recognize that “Spring Training” isn’t actually technically a location, but my husband assures me it means one of two places, so it counts. 😊In our case, we went to Fort Myers, Florida, to watch a game between the Minnesota Twins and the Baltimore Orioles. A whiteboard in the stadium displays the starting lineup Baseball is America’s pastime, and has significance to my family, too. I grew up hearing how my great-grandpa played for a professional ball team, how my grandpa and his brothers were invited to try out for the St. Louis Cardinals during spring training and (although neither my grandpa nor his brothers made the team), my grandpa was catcher during the try-outs when both Paul and Dizzy Dean were hit...
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