As is almost always the case, return trips tend to bring back memories of the first. Especially if they are particularly memorable.
So while making belated plans for another jaunt it seemed only natural to think back to 1974, my first year covering the Orioles in spring training. Never in a million seventh-inning-stretches could I or anyone else even dream I’d be making a similar trip 46 years later.
They haven’t all been the same, or for the same reason, or under the same set of circumstances, but here I am back at spring training camp for the 47th time and wondering, “How did this happen?”
