Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 3/4/2012

3/4/1913:
The New York Yankees conduct their first full-team workout at the Hamilton Cricket Field in Hamilton, Bermuda. The Yanks are the first major league team to travel to a foreign country for spring training. The club endures an arduous two-day journey by steamship from New York City. Most of the players spend their first day in Bermuda suffering from seasickness.

Birthdays:
Knute Rockne b. 1888
Danny Vance b. 1891
Margaret Osborne duPont b. 1918
"Badger Bob" Johnson b. 1931
Kevin Johnson b. 1966