What Baseball Teams Train In Arizona?
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If you’re a baseball fan, you might be wondering what teams train in Arizona. Here’s a quick rundown of which teams call the state their spring training home.
The Cactus League
The Cactus League is a baseball league that consists of 15 teams. These teams are all from either the American or the National League. The Cactus League is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. The teams in this league train in the state of Arizona, which is why it is called the Cactus League.
The Chicago Cubs
The Chicago Cubs are a professional baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central division, where they are the defending World Series champions. The team plays its home games at Wrigley Field, located on the city’s North Side. The Cubs are one of two major league teams in Chicago; the other, the Chicago White Sox, is a member of the American League (AL) Central division.
The Cleveland Indians
The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are in the Central Division of Major League Baseball’s American League. From 1914 to 2017, they played at Progressive Field. The team’s spring training facilities are located in Goodyear, Arizona.
The Los Angeles Angels
The Los Angeles Angels are a professional baseball team located in Anaheim, California. The Angels compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West division. The Angels have played their home games at Angel Stadium since 1966.
The “Angels” name was chosen by the team’s owner, Gene Autry, in 1961. It is a play on the phrase “A Pair of Angels”, which is how Anaheim was often referred to at the time (as two teams, the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers, had recently relocated there).
The Grapefruit League
The Grapefruit League is a baseball league that is made up of teams that train in Florida during spring training. The league gets its name from the grapefruit that is grown in the state. The league was founded in 1915 and is made up of 15 teams.
The Boston Red Sox
The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. The Red Sox have won nine World Series championships, tied for the third-most of any MLB team, and they have played in 13. Founded in 1901 as one of the American League’s eight charter franchises, the Red Sox’ home ballpark has been Fenway Park since 1912. The “Red Sox” name was chosen by owner John I. Taylor after the red socks worn by the team in its early years. The primary home uniform since 1903 has been white with navy piping around the neck and down each sleeve.
The franchise was establishied as the “Boston Americans” in 1901. The word “Americans” was dropped from the official name soon thereafter and has not been used by the club since 1908, except on select occasions such as during periods when there were temporary americanization efforts by Major League Baseball or during World War II when americanization was considered patriotic. When a new ballpark was built for the Americans to replace Huntington Avenue Grounds in 1911, it became known as Fenway Park – a name suggested by John Tevergeon Hartwell of Somerville, Massachussetts – after its location on Fenway (later Yawkey Way).
The New York Yankees
The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the Bronx, New York City, that competes in Major League Baseball (MLB). They are one of the American League’s (AL) eight charter teams. One of the American League’s eight original franchises, the club was founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 1901 as the Baltimore Orioles. They moved to New York City in 1903 and became known as the New York Highlanders before being officially renamed as the “Yankees” in 1913. The team is owned by Yankee Global Enterprises, an LLC controlled by the Steinbrenner family.
The grapefruit league is a spring training baseball league located in Florida. The league is made up of major league teams and their minor league affiliates who train together during March and April before the start of the regular season.
The Tampa Bay Rays
The Tampa Bay Rays are a professional baseball team based in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Rays compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the American League (AL) East division. Since its inception, the team’s home ballpark has been Tropicana Field.
The Tampa Bay Rays began play in the 1998 Major League Baseball season as the expansion Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The Devil Rays were created to consolidate the four teams that had been training in Florida’s Grapefruit League: the Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians, and New York Yankees.None of these teams had their own training facilities in Florida at the time, so they shared sites such as Al Lang Stadium in St. Petersburg and Legion Field in Clearwater.
