Having season tickets may be good for some hard-core baseball fans. For
others, the season has no meaning without a pilgrimage to spring training.
Fans, particularly autograph seekers, may come to catch the newest crop of
rookies at Dodgertown; they also spy former players, hall of famers, your
childhood favorites. "Here you have 18 teams within a five or six hour
drive of each other," said Tom Bunevich, a show organizer in Tampa. "You
can see some games in the morning, drive elsewhere and see some games in
the afternoon." Bunevich has lived in the heart of the spring training
since 1983. "I've seen it rise from a time when there were six or seven
people waiting for autographs, till now when there are hundreds."
Having season tickets may be good for some hard-core baseball fans. For
others, the season has no meaning without a pilgrimage to spring training.
Fans, particularly autograph seekers, may come to catch the newest crop of
rookies at Dodgertown; they also spy former players, hall of famers, your
childhood favorites. "Here you have 18 teams within a five or six hour
drive of each other," said Tom Bunevich, a show organizer in Tampa. "You
can see some games in the morning, drive elsewhere and see some games in
the afternoon." Bunevich has lived in the heart of the spring training
since 1983. "I've seen it rise from a time when there were six or seven
people waiting for autographs, till now when there are hundreds."