In 1946, a cattle ranch in Tucson was the site of an idea – one that sparked a Major League Baseball tradition taking place in Arizona to this day.
In 1946 a cattle ranch in Tucson was the site of an idea – one that sparked a Major League Baseball tradition taking place in Arizona to this day.
Monagan recalled an anecdote when Veeck inadvertently sat in a stadium section designated for Black people. As the story goes, a sheriff approached and asked him to leave. So the lightbulb went off: with its mild spring weather, proximity to Veeck’s ranch, and status as a modern-thinking community, why not bring baseball to Tucson for Spring Training?
And so the modest Buckhorn Baths and Motel became home to the Giants for 25 years. Players would stay there and enjoy time in the hot springs that gave Buckhorn both its name and reputation. The Yankees’ sojourn to Arizona gave it more credence as a training site. Just a year after New York’s tour of the West, the Chicago Cubs would move their own Spring Training to Mesa.
Three clubs continued to make Tucson their spring home after that: the Diamondbacks, Chicago White Sox and Colorado Rockies. But in 2009, the White Sox would buy out their contract in favor of a state-of-the-art facility in Glendale, marking the beginning of the end of Spring Training in Tucson.
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