Hope Springs Eternal

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In March, my brother (Cory), his friend (Fike) and I finally made the trek to see the Royals during spring training. We'd heard that it is an experience to go, but we were dubious. How much fun could it be to see a bunch of no name players (ok a few good ones too) play in meaningless practice games? Let me tell you, it was a blast! To anyone out there that is a baseball fan, you HAVE to go to your respective favorite team's spring training camp. You won't regret it. It was almost baseball overload, if there is such a thing. We went to 4 games, 3 stadiums and 2 practice sessions in 3 days, as well as a NBA game.

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Photos

Hitting and fielding instruction
Young players getting tips from a really good hitter in his day, Kevin Seitzer.

End of practice session
You can walk right along with them

Surprise Stadium
Royals spring training home. They also share it with the Texas Rangers

Autographs
If you're into getting things signed, then this is the place to be

George Brett and son
The greatest third baseman ever!

Maryvale Stadium 1
Royals doing pregame batting practice

Maryvale Stadium 2
Cheap seats but great views

Suns NBA game 1
Pregame fireworks, quite a production

Suns NBA game 3
This picture pretty sums up what we thought of the game - Boring.

Royals B-game
Rookies playing rookies

Comments

[Grace]

Chris, don't you talk to ball players? And what's with Ryan's pose in that pic?