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Posted By: Ken McMillan

It is always heald the last week of January in Mesa, Arizona. The fee is roughly $3800.00. You have trainers and the coaches instruct you on baseball, batting and throwing. They recommend to start stretching several weeks before camp and running and throwing. it doesn't hurt to go to a few batting cages. The games are played with pitching machines so nobody throws out their arms and the pitches come in 60 to 65 mph. Basically you are treated as a ballplayer for the entire week and have a blast. We were supposed to play against the Brewers camp last week, but the games got rained out unfortunately (Brewers use live pitching). My team won the camp championship (not to bad for some out of shape 40 to 50 year olds). I caught the majority of the week (lefty catcher). You get breakfast anf lunch every day in the fee, your uniform, an engraved bat, an autographed baseball from all the pros, and the final game of the week you play against the pros.

Ken