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    Baseball in Hot Springs
    Baseball in Hot Springs
    Baseball in Hot Springs
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    Baseball in Hot Springs

    By Mark Blaeuer

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    Hot Springs, known for its naturally heated springs and therapeutic bathhouses, became a major training ground in baseball. A must-have for fans of baseball history.


    Hot Springs, Arkansas, with its thermal water baths, attracted its first big-league outfit when the National League champion Chicago White Stockings traveled south for spring training in 1886.

    The baseball colony grew as dozens of other clubs followed. Individual players flocked here as well to hike, golf, and boil out in bathhouse steam cabinets prior to leaving for training camps elsewhere. Nearly half of Cooperstown's Hall of Famers made the pilgrimage to this baseball mecca. Major- and minor-league aggregations, legendary teams, players of the Negro Leagues, and baseball schools for budding players and umpires all come to bat in Images of Sports: Baseball in Hot Springs.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateMar 28, 2016
    ISBN9781439655016
    Baseball in Hot Springs
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    Mark Blaeuer

    Author Mark Blaeuer, originally from southern Illinois, earned his MA from the University of Arkansas. He moved to Hot Springs in 1989 as a ranger for the National Park Service. He is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and the Garland County Historical Society.

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