Spring training, major league baseball’s preseason ritual, is underway. In this 1961 photo from our Los Angeles Examiner Collection, manager Bill Rigney watches as his Los Angeles Angels warm up in Palm Springs, their spring training home from 1961 until 1992. Many other major league teams pitched their spring training camps in Southern California, as L.A. as Subject explains at KCET.org.

Spring training, major league baseball’s preseason ritual, is underway. In this 1961 photo from our Los Angeles Examiner Collection, manager Bill Rigney watches as his Los Angeles Angels warm up in Palm Springs, their spring training home from 1961 until 1992.

Many other major league teams pitched their spring training camps in Southern California, as L.A. as Subject explains at KCET.org.

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1963 aerial photo of Palm Springs and Mount San Jacinto

1963 aerial photo of Palm Springs and Mount San Jacinto

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