Every summer, fans flock to baseball stadiums around the country to take in the traditional sights and sounds of the national pastime. The crack of the bat, the peanut shells under their feet, the pine tar, the double plays, the suicide squeeze, the h...

Nelson Cruz and Jason Heyward were two players who put a hurting on the baseball
The sights and sounds of baseball returned to Roger Dean Stadium on Wednesday afternoon. A difference, though, was there was more noise off the bat. The unmistakable "ping" of metal bats reverberated throughout the park.
With Spring Training nearing and arbitration hearings drawing even closer, here are some of the sights and sounds from the Hot Stove on Friday.
Tim Wakefield doesn’t throw as hard as lots of high school boys. His ball, while trav’ling to the plate, can contemplate the joys Of all the sights and sounds that fill a sunny baseball day, As that ball starts and jumps and sinks along its wobbly way. Tim Wakefield started for the Pirates back in ’92. If he could not throw knuckleballs, who knows what he would do, For he cannot throw hard enough to break a row of glasses… Yet lots of hitters facing him and swinging from their asses Loo
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