MLB.com - At first glance, it might not seem so strange that the Cubs used somewhere in California to prepare for the season, especially in the days before Major League Baseball was on the West Coast. The circumstances around their facility were what it made it remarkable. It wasn't just that the Cubs hosted Spring Training on Catalina Island -- they literally owned the island.
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