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Originally Posted by milkit1
Very good point regarding them possibly playing together in the same location during spring training
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I think I was wrong about that. In The Glory of Their Times, Fred Snodgrass says, after McGraw offered him a contract for the 1908 season:
"Well, as you can well imagine, I was on that train four days later, going to marlin Texas...The Giants had bought a piece of property in marlin, Texas, a town of about 4,000 or 5,000 people, and had constructed a bal, park there for spring-training purposes...We trained there every spring I was with the Giants, which was until 1915..."
Unfortunately for the theory, marlin is about 300 miles due west of Alexandria, LA.