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This is What Spring Training Looked Like in 1948

This is What Spring Training Looked Like in 1948
This is What Spring Training Looked Like in 1948

This is What Spring Training Looked Like in 1948

Players buy their own baseball mitts. (George Silk—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Just warming up. (George Silk—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey and his grandson sizing up a pitcher's delivery. (George Silk—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Rookies and prospects practice hook slides. (George Silk—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Players getting clocked for speed. (George Silk—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)