Warming up on a cool day.

It's overcast, windy, and cold. In the northeast, that's called the first day of spring.

Okay, it's not that cold, and some South Bronx boys saw vernal equinox as a good opportunity to warm up and get loose.

Leo goes airborne as he rehearses an around-the-horn 5-4-3 double play.

"The gate was open," said Leo, who practiced fielding ground balls at Heritage Field with some of his fellow ballplayers from Bronx Community College. "We're trying to make the team."

We can't all afford a plane ticket to Florida: Long sleeves are standard attire. 

Leo said he although he lives in the neighborhood, he doesn't often get a chance to practice on the original Yankee Stadium ball field.

Few errant throws when your first baseman is as tall as the Chrysler Building.

"We never jump the fence," he said, explaining why. "If the red flags are up, that means that they [Department of Recreation] are doing maintenance. It's a good field, and we want to keep it that way."

 Good luck, guys. Practice and discipline all the hallmark of success. May good luck and fortune carry you the rest of the way.

In the shadows of legends . . .