All-Hunter Lineup a Hit at State-of- the-Art Spring Training Facility All because of a winning double play combination of the right turf for the environment and the right rotors. The city of Surprise, Arizona may be little but it sure thinks big, like building one of the most ambitious pro baseball training sites to date and incorporating it into what will eventually become the city center of the growing Phoenix suburb. Tucked into a 200-acre municipal center is the spring-training home for not one but two teams, the Texas Rangers and the Kansas City Royals, complete with a state-of-the-art stadium and 14 practice fields. Surrounding the sports facility are 57 acres of parks, a five-acre lake, an aquatic center, a library and city administrative offices — all totaling a cool $62 million. R

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