AddThisThe Rites of Spring Training
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Five winning traditions particular to spring training:
- Players often run wind sprints along the warning track, even while the game is in progress.
- Players’ kids hang out in the bullpen.
- Roster players take part for only a couple of innings at the start of spring training, then gradually add innings over the course of the two months.
- You can tell the minor-leaguers who aren’t on the major-league roster—they’re the ones wearing jerseys with numbers in the high two digits.
- Players stop to sign autographs as they trot off the field, sometimes in the middle of a game.
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