early training sites include the st. louis cardinals in hot springs and tulsa, oklahoma; the new york yankees in new orleans and later phoenix, arizona, when the team was owned by del webb; the chicago cubs in los angeles when owned by william wrigley jr.; the st. louis browns and later the kansas city athletics in san diego and then in west palm beach, florida; the pittsburgh pirates in dawson springs, kentucky around 1915 and honolulu, while other teams joined in by the early 1940s. the detroit tigers are credited with being the first team to conduct spring training camp in arizona. they trained in phoenix at riverside park at central avenue and the salt river in 1929.