Florida Spring Training: Your Guide to Touring the Grapefruit League

by Alan Byrd

In the Spring, professional baseball teams turn Florida into every fan's dream destination. For the teams, Spring Training represents a new beginning, the first step on a pilgrimage to the World... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1887140689
• ISBN13: 9781887140683
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Intrepid Traveler
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A hardcore fan's guide

If you're looking for a book about the rich history of the Grapefruit League, keep moving. This book is a straightforward how-to of gameday. I've been to six of the parks in Florida already and the book's information was very accurate. This makes me feel better about this upcoming spring when I get to visit some different parks. If you want to maximze your gameday experience, this is the book for you. Info on seating, parking, directions, traffic, food, programs, and the ever-important autograph tips make for a great book. Also includes 5 one week vacation itineraries to help you plan a vacation. If you want to make the most of your time at a Grapefruit game, this is the guide for you!

Essential and practical advice

This book is a total success in fulfilling its remit, that as a practical guide to touring the various venues of the Grapefruit League in Florida. The advice is uncomplicated, the observations are sharp and the recommendations are worthwhile. If you are looking for a book that provides a broader perspective on the traditions or history of Spring Training, then perhaps you should look elsewhere. Alan Byrd does not really attempt to cover this here but should not necessarily be faulted for this. From personal experience of visiting five different venues during Spring Training 2005, this book was a tremendous help and eliminated a lot of mistakes that would otherwise have been made when visiting ballparks for the first time.

Great Guide for Spring Training in FL!

We've been going to Florida for spring training for most of the past 25 years. We bought Byrd's guide at the first 2005 spring training game we went to. The reviews of the spring training sites, shade/sun available, autograph opportunities, and food served at the games are right on! We have several other guides, but this one is the best! We used this one for the entire week we were in Florida.

GREAT STUFF!

Finally someone wrote a book on the Spring Training experience for fans. So much info is written on players and teams, it leaves fans somewhat in the dark as to how to experience spring training throughout the various cities in Florida. This book gives you facts and information that is useful in experiencing spring training statewide. Thanks Byrd.

Exactly What I Was Looking For!!

I did a search for books on spring training in Florida and all the books I found had bad reviews. I saw that this bookwas coming out and didn't know if it was going to be good ornot but for the price I went ahead and ordered it.* The book has zero fluff and all you need to know about eachof the 17 spring training stadiums in Florida. * It has a brief history of how spring training started in Florida.* Gives you the details you want to know for example the shade, food, parking, attractions near by, and where tosit. I don't know why this book wasn't written long ago.Last year I took my son to spring training for our first time.I had the best time and will now make it a tradition eachyear. Last year we went to Disney for the Braves, Kissimmee forthe Astors, and Lakeland for the Tigers.This year we will be going to Vero to see the Dodgers, Port St Lucie to see the Mets, and Melbourne to see the Expos. Ifwe have time and enough energy we may also go to Jupiter tosee the Cardinals.Thanks to this book I know to spend some time at Dodger Stadiumin Vero which the author said is the best in the Grape Fruit League. Before I read this book I was only going to see onegame there but now we will see two games and will get thereearly to see practice. Like the author said there is something special about baseballspring training not found in any other sport. I'm not a huge baseball fan but I'm a huge baseball spring training fan.