Grapefruit League

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Grapefruit League (USA)

***** Location: USA
***** Season: Spring
***** Category: Humanity

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Explanation

The USA baseball teams
who come to Florida for Spring Training are known as the "Grapefruit League"...Florida is where the "boys of summer" get their first workouts and play the first exhibition games of the year.
There is also the "Cactus League" teams that begin Spring Training in Arizona.

1.(n) grapefruit league
the major league teams that conduct their spring training in Florida.
SYNONYMS: grapefruit circuit, grapefruit loop



Spring training is almost as old as baseball itself. The best evidence points to spring training first taking place in 1870, when the Cincinnati Red Stockings and the Chicago White Stockings held organized baseball camps in New Orleans. Other baseball historians argue that the Washington Capitals of the National League pioneered spring training in 1888, holding a four-day camp in Jacksonville.

Spring Training 2004: Spring Training History
http://www.springtrainingonline.com/features/history.htm


Grapefruit League - Baseball's Spring Training in Florida
http://tampa.about.com/cs/sports/l/blspring.htm


2004 Spring Training Online: Master Schedule: Grapefruit League
http://www.springtrainingonline.com/features/master_schedule.htm


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Things found on the way


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HAIKU

grapefruit league
the hitter and his shadow
run for home

Carol Raisfeld

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cactus league
rookies picking stickers
after the loss

Darrell Byrd
(with permission 041029)


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Related words

***** Baseball Playoff USA (05)

***** . Gureepufuruutsu グレープフルーツ Grapefruit .
Citrus sinensis or Citrus paradisi


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