Spring Training: Baseball's Early Season

by Dan Shaughnessy, Stan Grossfeld, Cal Ripken Jr.

Full-color images from a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer complement an evocative celebration of professional baseball's spring training, past and present, offering a close-up look at the teams, players, and fans as they prepare for the official season of America's favorite pastime.

Genres: Baseball, Nonfiction, Sports

192 pages, Hardcover

First published February 5, 2003

About the author

Dan Shaughnessy is an award-winning columnist for the Boston Globe and the author of several sports books, including The Curse of the Bambino, a best-selling classic. Seven times Shaughnessy has been voted one of America’s top ten sports columnists by Associated Press Sports Editors and named Massachusetts Sportswriter of the Year. He has appeared on Good Morning America, The Today Show, The Early Show, CNN, Nightline, NPR, Imus in the Morning, ESPN, HBO, and many others. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts.