Spring
Training - Mesa Arizona - March
2010 |

Spring Training on the cheap |

Hyatt Mesa |
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Entrance to Hohokam Park |

Where Cub Dreams go to Die! |

"Have your pencils and
scorecards ready,
Here's the line up for today's
game" |

Cub Souvenir Shop
(Not Maxwell Street, more like
Rodeo Drive!) |

The Original Heller kids |

Pete Lacock and Willie Wilson
Signing Autographs |

Bert Campanaris |

George Foster of the the Big Red
Machine |

Autographed Bats |

Jerry and Rollie Fingers |

Rich and Bill Buckner |

Seats on the 3rd base line |

Carlos Zambrano |

Will the base runner steal on
Carlos? |

At the minor league complex |
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Sure is a lot of standing around |

Starlin Castro Cubs rookie
Phenom
waiting to take his turn in the
batting cage |

Coaches keep batting cage from
floating away |

Remember Bobby Scales
Older rookie who had a cup of
coffee in the bigs |

Ryne Sandburg, manager of the
AAA Iowa Cubs |

Ryno with the rest of his
coaches |

All four fields at Fitch Park |
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Marlin Byrd on 1st base |

We're a bit further down the
line on Saturday |

Kids running the bases after the
game |

Hohokam Park |

Looking at the press box and
suites at Hohokam |

We're having a buffet at the
Patio at Hohokam |

Cub radio announcer Pat Hughes
and Cub outfielder Sam Fuld |

Taking Q&A from the buffet crowd |

Cubs rookie phenom Starlin
Castro joins the group |

Cubs interpreter explains
Starlin's comments |

Part of the Cubs Buffet crowd |

Starlin, Sam and Pat sign
autographs |

So you wondered whatever
happened to Sosa? |

Look closely, that's Carlos
Zambrano
playing with the minor leaguers
on Sunday morning
He hit a double before he sat
down. |

That's Starlin Castro batting in
the game |

Peoria Sports complex from the
berm |

Ichiro Suzuki batting against
Dempster |

Attendance record for the 2nd
straight day |

Ken Griffey |

AARP Security staff guarding
against intruders after the game |

We finally saw a Cubs Win!
The Cubs scored all of five runs
in three days! |