Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
February 28, 2003
Spring in Az:

Phoenix is pitching to bring in more spring training tourists:


The point man for the Greater Phoenix Convention & Visitors Bureau couldn't have asked for better weather. In Kansas City, that is.

It was a frigid 19 degrees and snowing as MacKenzie explained the virtues of coming West to watch the Royals in their new spring training digs in Surprise, Ariz.

"We want them to know we are open, and we want their business," said MacKenzie, who planned to visit four other cities with Cactus League teams before spring training games started. "The Phoenix area should be their No. 1 destination."


I've thought about this myself. You can get there cheaply on Southwest, and once you are there, all the ballparks are close by, as this Catus League map shows. If you have a three day weekend, you could catch a lot of games without a lot of travel.


Posted by David Pinto at 02:53 PM | Baseball