Spring training, the old days vs now

beezer

i believe they have a team rate to stay in the dorms. i think it comes with a meal package. my son played there a few years ago but his team stayed at a hotel. kind of unkept fields then.

Don't know what other teams do, but mine's got a comfy room at the Doubletree Hotel.

beezer
i thought you were talking college,

tpm
mine stays at the clarion,sounds good but it isn't the nice part of the hotel. but who would want all that testosterone running through the lobby.

Beezer...two things prompted the Vero Beach thing:
1. This is the Dodgers last year, and
2. Black history month.

I lived in Cocoa, FL in the early 70's and players WERE housed in those dorms...especially the minor leaguers. It was a nice complex back in the day, with all the outlying fields and the main stadium. My dad would sometimes drop me off and I would (as a 9 and 10 year old) just watch all the players going through drills on those fields. It was great.

Cocoa dropped the ball and would not build a new facility for the Astros so they bolted to Kissimmee, which is laid out very similar to the Cocoa complex.

JT is most likely correct, I would venture to say that you would find that at the older st facilities.

I can't imagine in this day and age of the pampered athlete holding up in a bunkhouse for 5 weeks.

I heard (not sure if it's true) that the big leaguers during st have to toughen it by sharing rooms?

Maybe this is where someone like newagent can negotiate well for you, no roomate during spring training.

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Originally posted by TPM:
I can't imagine in this day and age of the pampered athlete holding up in a bunkhouse for 5 weeks.

That's my question....do any pros do it now?

I'm only familiar with how one team handles spring training lodging, and that's the Diamondbacks. The big league club stays at a very nice resort hotel. Everyone in minor league camp stays at a seperate hotel in downtown Tucson, which is also nice.