Spring Training: Arizona's Cactus League history - unfiltered
Mike Sakal
Mike Sakal’s column runs on Fridays. Contact him at (480) 898-6533 or msakal@evtrib.com, or write to Mike Sakal, East Valley Tribune, 1620 W. Fountainhead Pkwy., Suite 219, Tempe, AZ 85282
Susie Steckner
Susie Steckner looks at the large New York Giants banner that her father had tucked away in a closet before she donated it to the Mesa Historical Museum's Play Ball exhibit. Steckner, a Valley-based writer, recently completed "Cactus League: Spring Training," a book about the history of spring training in Arizona that will be available beginning this weekend. (Tribune file)
Willie Mays
Baseball great Willie Mays gets a massage at the Buckhorn mineral baths in east Mesa in the 1950s. (Photo courtesy of Mesa Historical Museum)
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