Batter up: Spring training draws out the super fan

Every February, when the snow spoils hopes of an early spring and the cold wind penetrates their Colorado bones, Janet and Rudy Todd leave their La Salle home and travel to Arizona’s Talking Stick Resort, where everyone knows their name.

When they sit in the shaded seats they chose as their season tickets the first time the Colorado Rockies came to Salt River Fields, they’re greeted by other longtime fans, the ushers, players’ wives, a senior pro golfer (not Tiger Woods), the guy who sings the national anthem and, of course, the workers.

“We don’t…