Exhibit focuses on Hot Springs’ baseball ties

By: Mark Gregory - Sentinel-Record

GATOR-AID: Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame outfielder Tris Speaker takes a ride at the Arkansas Alligator Farm. Whittington Park was located across the street, and Fogel Field is next to the Alligator Farm. Photograph is courtesy of the Garland County Historical Society.

SPRING TRAINING: From left, Red Sox teammates Bill Carrigan, Jake Stahl, Hall-of-Famer Cy Young (dark uniform) and Fred Anderson at Whittington Park in Hot Springs, circa 1909. Photograph is courtesy of the George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress.

The Hot Springs Convention Center will premier a new exhibit of photographs today that celebrates the Spa City’s claim to be the birthplace of spring training for Major League Baseball.

The exhibit, entitled “Hot Springs: Baseball’s First Spring Training Town,” covers one wall in the Hot ...

Published: 03/05/2010