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Clearwater Mayor Frank Hibbard was on hand to greet the Philadelphia Phillies equipment truck after it made the 1,058-mile journey from the City of Brotherly Love to the Sunshine State. (City of Clearwater)
Clearwater Mayor Frank Hibbard was on hand to greet the Philadelphia Phillies equipment truck after it made the 1,058-mile journey from the City of Brotherly Love to the Sunshine State. (City of Clearwater)
CLEARWATER, FL While Tampa Bay residents wouldn t know it by any change in temperature, they know it s spring by the arrival of Major League Baseball teams to their spring training camps.
Pitchers and catchers report.
Spring training signals that winter and cold weather soon will be gone, and ahead are sunshine, warmth, hope, grass as green as a highway sign and road trips to and across Florida and Arizona. It means school will be out before long, summer vacations will commence and the wonderful rhythm of a baseball season will begin.
And yet, right now, it doesn t feel right. It doesn t feel like spring training. Mostly because of COVID-19, which makes many inside and outside the sport wonder whether we should even be starting spring training until life is safer, until more vaccines can be administered. There s a concern among baseball executives, and those in uniform, that before we even get to the exhibition games in March, there will be so many positive tests that the sport will have to be paused. You can pause basketball, and the second it starts up again, Steph Curry is going to be knocking down a ridiculous 3 drifting to his left.
Pitchers and catchers report.
Spring training signals that winter and cold weather soon will be gone, and ahead are sunshine, warmth, hope, grass as green as a highway sign and road trips to and across Florida and Arizona. It means school will be out before long, summer vacations will commence and the wonderful rhythm of a baseball season will begin.
And yet, right now, it doesn t feel right. It doesn t feel like spring training. Mostly because of COVID-19, which makes many inside and outside the sport wonder whether we should even be starting spring training until life is safer, until more vaccines can be administered. There s a concern among baseball executives, and those in uniform, that before we even get to the exhibition games in March, there will be so many positive tests that the sport will have to be paused. You can pause basketball, and the second it starts up again, Steph Curry is going to be knocking down a ridiculous 3 drifting to his left.
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MLB rumors: Yankees might allow fans at spring training games
Updated Feb 02, 2021;
Posted Feb 02, 2021
The Yankees hope to have fans in the stands at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Florida for spring training.
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Who knows when fans will be allowed back at Yankee Stadium as the nation works to vaccinate as many as possible against the coronavirus.
But it seems like it’s only a matter of time before they’re cheering at George M. Steinbrenner Field.
According to USA Today’s Bob Nightengale, MLB is expected to allow teams to permit a limited number of fans at spring training games this year. The capacity likely won’t exceed 25%.