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Spring Training

As all those who follow baseball know, this is the time of spring training. Although in many areas of the country it is snowing and bitter cold still lingers, in Florida, Arizona and California the best baseball players in the country are working hard to prepare themselves for the coming season. All the players come to their respective training camps with one goal in mind -- to make it to the World Series in October. The pain, the sweat, the hard work that is involved in being a baseball player is all worth it, if the goal can be accomplished.

Baseball players have to prepare themselves in at least three ways. First, they have to get into shape. Running, exercising, dieting -- all may be necessary to drop…