Editing Marlin, Texas (section)

=== Chicago White Sox (1904) ===

The [[Chicago White Sox]] baseball team visited "Marlin Springs" from March 7 to March 17, 1904, as part of their spring training tour of the South.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/323092529/|title=White Sox to Train in South|date=25 January 1904|work=Topeka State Journal|access-date=12 August 2019}}</ref>  The team's selection of Marlin can be credited to [[Ted Sullivan (baseball)|Ted Sullivan]]. The ''Chicago Tribune'' quoted Sullivan in an article published on February 7, 1904: "If I had looked the United States over for a spring training ground for a ball club, I do not believe I could have found a spot I would pick ahead of Marlin Springs ... [Charles] [[Charles Comiskey|Comiskey]] asked me last December when I was coming to Texas to pick him out a place to train. I met a man in Dallas, who told me he left his crutches at Marlin; that he went there suffering with rheumatism. I took a run down to Marlin ... and I found the ideal spot for training grounds. The place has a magnificent hotel. Adjoining this place is a beautiful natatorium equipped with hot sulphur and all kinds of baths... The ball grounds here are on even surface and are only four blocks from the hotel. This is the spot I selected for the Chicago American league club..."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/350238009/|title=Praises White Stocking Camp|date=7 February 1904|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=12 August 2019}}</ref>  The White Sox left Marlin on March 17 "with expressions of regret and of hope that its individuals will be with the White Sox next spring when they return here for a similar stay."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/350224895|title=White Sox Break Camp|date=20 March 1904|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=12 August 2019}}</ref> Among those on the White Sox who trained in Marlin was [[George Davis (baseball)|George Davis]]. On the last full day (March 16), Manager [[Nixey Callahan]] had the team make a ten-mile round trip walk to the Brazos River after dinner.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/350224641|title=Last Day at Marlin Springs|date=17 March 1904|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=12 August 2019}}</ref>