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Baseball now will take center stage.

With Spring Training well under way, Opening Day is getting closer, and the sound of "Play ball" will be heard to the ears of fans of the game. Spring Training signals the beginning of what every baseball fan waits for.

The time has come for baseball to resurface, to bring the "Boys of Summer" back. This is the time to say goodbye to winter, even though the Northeast is getting hammered with cold temperatures, and ring in spring. The crack of the bat, the pounding of the mitt, the yelling of "play ball" is what the game of baseball is about.

Baseball shapes America and the families that make it up. Baseball shapes the summer, where more and more families go to the game to cheer on their favorite team. This is the game of all games. Push aside football, basketball and, oh yeah, hockey. Baseball is the sport.

Since it has begun, the media has their eyes set on Florida and Arizona, the training sites for all the teams. What team will be the team this year? Will it be the Dodgers again? What about the great rivalries of the past? Will the "new" Mets be in contention? Will the Yankees make it exciting? Only these questions can be answered when the season begins.

When the sun rises on Sunday, the days will start to get longer and warmer. The great Rogers Hornsby said it best: "People ask me what I do in the winter when there's no baseball. I tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."

Until then, see you at Spring Training!


— Joe Boesch 

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