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The 2018 total Economic output was $644.2 million
An 11% increase on the 2015 output estimate
223 Cactus League games drew a total of 1,796,403 fans.
People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.
I love playing this game and every spring training feels like the first.
I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.
It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseballs around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.
Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.
The sound of the bat is the music of spring training.
Spring is the time of year when the ground thaws, trees bud, the income taxes falls due and everybody wins the pennant.
That’s the true harbinger of spring – not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on a ball.
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.
Spring training is my best time of the year. Heck, once the season starts, I go to work.
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.
