1. As spring training began, Alomar appeared to accept that spitting trumps ugly words on the bridge table of public opinion.

2. Already, Mark Leiter can feel the difference this spring training from the stomach-churning ordeals of years past.

3. Spare us the cliched drivel of how spring training mirrors life's new beginnings.

4. A year ago, Billy Ashley entered spring training as the Dodgers' starting left fielder.

5. Now in his second major-league spring training Taylor is pretty sure of his immediate future.

6. But fortunately, the spring training teams will play a few charity games to raise some needed revenue.

7. Players do not get paid during spring training according to their basic labor agreement with owners.

8. So is Arizona winning this budding war for spring training sites?

9. In spring training I started off good with my throwing, and then all of sudden it declined.

10. They played mostly trail horses during spring training.

11. The team starts spring training next week.

12. Bernie Williams apparently will not attend spring training with the New York Yankees.

13. Wang strained his right hamstring late in spring training, but he said he felt normal Tuesday.

14. George Steinbrenner at Yankee Camp during spring training in March 1981.

15. You know, study abroad is like spring training for this century.

16. It has spent more millions on improvements to Hi Corbett Field to benefit a few weeks of spring training baseball games.

17. The right-hander is a candidate to begin the season on the disabled list and continue rehabbing in Florida during extended spring training.

18. Anybody else, including newcomer Wil Cordero, must fight it out in spring training just to be his backup.

19. Weenie contestants participate in the sausage race between innings of a spring training baseball game between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Seattle Mariners March 8, in Phoenix.

20. An unwelcome guest found its way into the press box at a baseball spring training game---a small snake. The snake was removed from the press box but not before scaring a few sports writers.

21. Much of what pitchers do is muscle memory as they try to repeat their delivery. That's one of the reasons spring training lasts as long as it does.

22. An unwelcome guest found its way into a press box at a baseball spring training game, a small snake.

23. An unwelcome guest a press box at a baseball spring training game, a small snake.

24. Going to secondary pitches was a work in progress during Spring Training for the Taiwanese right-hander, but the dress rehearsals are over.