1.   And what better place to find it than here at HoHoKam Park, spring training home of the Chicago Cubs, Our Team of Perpetual Hope.

2.   Ballplayers used to go to spring training to dry out, slim down and refocus their batting eyes.

3.   Baseball owners are planning to bring their minor-league players to spring training early to start building replacement teams for striking major-league players.

4.   After retiring as a player, Clemens would have been invited to spring training to work with the pitchers.

5.   But it was merely spring training, when drama is short-lived.

6.   But, oh, these spring trainings?

7.   Candiotti thinks back to spring training when it was thought he would be traded any day.

8.   He has been to spring training, though.

9.   He made me comfortable when I went to spring training a year ago.

10.   In the old days, big league players routinely stopped off on their way to spring training to supervise production of their signature bats.