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Article: SPRING (TRAINING) IS IN THE AIR IN ARIZONA CACTUS LEAGUE GROWING IN NUMBERS, POPULARITY.(Sports)

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February 8, 1998
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Byline: Eric Brazil San Francisco Examiner Scripps Howard News Service

Immune to basketball fever, indifferent to the Winter Olympics, and with the Super Bowl a faint, fading memory, your true baseball fan counts the days until the best time of all: just 17 days until spring training games!

Arizona's Cactus League season opens Feb. 25, with more teams than ever, anticipated record attendance of 1 million, real grass and - a bonus for rain-weary Californians - guaranteed sunshine.

That the games aren't for keeps doesn't faze fans.

``Spring training is my favorite place to be, my favorite thing to do,'' said San Jose sporting goods store ...

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