In 1911, decades before coast-to-coast travel became a fact of life in major league baseball, the Boston Red Sox embarked on the most ambitious spring training trip ever taken. After a full slate of games throughout California, the team decamped from Redondo Beach and made its way east, stopping in 10 states and the Arizona Territory, and playing in places such as Pueblo, Yuma, Wichita, and Lincoln--traveling exclusively by railroad. By the time the team finished up its preseason schedule, beating Harvard on their first day back in Boston, the Red Sox had played a staggering 63 games. “comprehensive”― Redsox.com . In 1911, the Red Sox embarked on the most ambitious spring training trip ever taken before or since. In the days when travel was by train, and even the automobile was relatively new, the Red Sox traveled from Boston to California and back again, playing 63 spring training games up and down the West Coast, and then as they traveled east in an almost bewildering number of locations--many of which have never seen another major-league team in the 100 years since the Red Sox visited. In 1911, the Red Sox embarked on the most ambitious spring training trip ever taken before or since. In the days when travel was by train, and even the automobile was relatively new, the Red Sox traveled from Boston to California and back again, playing 63 spring training games up and down the West Coast, and then as they traveled east in an almost bewildering number of locations--many of which have never seen another major-league team in the 100 years since the Red Sox visited. Bill Nowlin is the author of more than 25 books on the Boston Red Sox, as well as hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles. Currently, he is the assistant editor of Diehard magazine and co-founder of Rounder Records of Massachusetts.