This weekend saw many teams ship equipment to Arizona and Florida in anticipation of spring training — including the Boston Red Sox, who celebrated Truck Day on Saturday.
The Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Dodgers have already reported to spring training, but they’re the outliers: they need to cram in a regular-length spring training in a truncated schedule, as the two teams begin the regular season on March 22-23 in Sydney, Australia. The other MLB teams all report this week — see here for a schedule — and so they need equipment shipped from home bases. The Boston Red Sox turned this into a commercial success, launching Truck Day and signing JetBlue as a sponsor.
This year saw the Red Sox ship the following from Fenway Park:
- 20,400 baseballs
- 1,100 bats
- 200 batting gloves
- 200 batting helmets
- 320 Batting Practice tops
- 160 white game jerseys
- 300 pairs of pants
- 400 t-shirts
- 400 pairs of socks
- 20 cases of bubble gum
- 60 cases of sunflower seeds
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