Arizona is ready for spring training season.

Fifteen Major League Baseball teams play around the Phoenix metropolitan area as part of what’s called the Cactus League. Spring training in Arizona has been a tradition since the 1940s when the Cleveland Indians and New York Giants were the only teams that practiced there.

The games run Tuesday to April 2 in advance of MLB’s opening day, April 3.

The Cactus League teams are the San Francisco Giants, Colorado Rockies, Arizona Diamondbacks, Chicago White Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds, Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago Cubs, San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners, Oakland Athletics, Kansas City Royals, Texas Rangers and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

Stadiums are in Glendale, Goodyear, Mesa, Peoria, Phoenix, Scottsdale, Surprise and Tempe.

Scottsdale will host a spring training festival Saturday, and city’s Cactus League Legacy Trail offers self-guided tours of the city’s spring training baseball history going back to the 1950s.

Details at cactusleague.com.

Traveling Masters to stop in isles

NEW YORK >> The Dramatists Guild Fund has convinced some theatrical heavy-hitters, including two-time Tony winner Terrence McNally and Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel, to hit the road offering writing workshops, master classes, talk-backs and other public events.

The fund said Wednesday that McNally, Vogel, composing team Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, and playwrights Anna Ziegler, Lauren Yee and Chisa Hutchinson will be Traveling Masters, making public appearances in Hawaii, Pennsylvania, New York, Missouri, Minnesota and West Virginia.

Madeleine George, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for “The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence,” started the process this year when she hit South Carolina in early February.

Ahrens and Flaherty wrote the score of “Ragtime,” Ziegler wrote the West End’s “Photograph 51,” and Yee’s plays include “Ching Chong Chinaman.” Hutchinson is a Lanford Wilson Award winner.