It happens every spring: the sportswriters, awoken from their restful slumber by the gentle alarm clock that is a warming printing press, start their work again, gracing us with the news of our baseball heroes and heroes yet to be. For your reading pleasure, we present now a selection of headlines from Spring Trainings past.
“There’s One Nice Thing About Wilhelm’s Job With Phillies: He Hasn’t Any Great Problems When it Comes to Picking His Team, Since He Has So Little That He Can Pick That Team From”, 1922.
This would’ve been a better zinger if the punchline were a little less wordy.