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Definition of Spring training
1. Noun. Preseason training during the spring.
Definition of Spring training
1. Noun. (baseball) A set of practices and exhibition games for each Major League Baseball team, preceding the start of the regular season, which are used by a manager to determine the roster for the regular season. ¹
2. Noun. (context: noun adjunct) (baseball) Of or pertaining to the set of practices and exhibition games preceding the start of the regular season. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spring Training
Literary usage of Spring training
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Touching Second: The Science of Baseball by John J. Evers, Hugh S. Fullerton (1910)
"... CHAPTER XV spring training* Lost river had found itself, flooded the "Valley
of Vapors" and lost itself again, leaving the grounds around West Baden, ..."
2. Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways by Jamie Jensen (2006)
"South of Fort Pierce, Port St. Lucie is the spring training home of the New York
Mets (561/871-2100), who play at 525 NW Peacock Boulevard, off 1-95. ..."
3. Adventure Guide to Tampa Bay and Florida's West Coast by Chelle Koster Walton (2003)
"The Philadelphia Phillies hold spring training at Jack Russell Memorial ...
It occupies the stadium once used for spring training by the Cincinnati Reds. ..."
4. Smokeless Tobacco Or Health: An International Perspective by DIANE Publishing Company (1993)
"METHODS During spring training of 1988,1989, and 1990, all players and coaching
staff of the seven Major League Baseball teams and their associated minor ..."
5. Baseball Goes to War by William B. Mead (1998)
"CHAPTER 11 That Glorious 1944 Season Part I: spring training and a Fast ...
spring training began the next day, and by then nine Brown players were on hand. ..."
6. Baseball Goes to War by William B. Mead (1998)
"CHAPTER 11 That Glorious 1944 Season Part I: spring training and a Fast ...
spring training began the next day, and by then nine Brown players were on hand. ..."
7. Winning Football by William Winston Roper (1921)
"It would certainly be silly on its face to attempt anything like a championship
baseball league during those spring training periods, and it is about as ..."
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