For Minnesota High Schools, Baseball Season Starts Indoors
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – It's the Minnesota special. Spring sports start indoors, and you make do. Washburn High School has begun their training in the school gym.
"We've basically been letting the kids demonstrate what they can do without giving them too much instruction. Making corrections where they have to be made, trying to emphasize mechanics, fundamentals," said Jim Clancy, Washburn High School baseball coach.
It's difficult to make all of this fun. Gymnasiums just don't do that for a baseball program.
"We're kind of in a spot where we have to figure we're going to spend half a session on fielding, half the session on hitting," Clancy said.
There is a caveat. The football field is turf.
That means if there is no snow, you can go outdoors and feel like you're in the game.
"It gets tight. We went a couple days with 40 guys in that gym," said Clancy.