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...most of their 30 year history, the California Angels have made their home in the quiet desert resort town of Palm Springs, Calif...
...baseball nut since the womb from Pasadena, Calif., the Angel camp at Palm Springs was my only taste of spring baseball. It was just a two-hour drive from my house, and my dad took me to an Angels-Padres game there when...
...went back occassionally during family vacations, and during a high school a friend and I would drive out to take in a game. But slowly, the Angels--and Palm Springs--began to change...
Instead of the quiet town once referred to as the "home of the newlyweds and the nearly-deads," Palm Spring became a Spring Break hot spot for rambunctious youths. The prime attraction became not the ball-park but The Strip, a town thoroughfare where scantily clad men and women trampled on Christian morals. Sonny Bono, a powerless figurehead as the town's mayor, began a serious run for a U.S. Senate seat...
...this was all too much for Palm Springs and the Angels. They began to play more spring games in Arizona, and this spring they moved away for good...