McCormick Field, home of the Asheville Tourists, is one of the oldest ballparks in the country – the Tourists have been playing there for 100 years in 2024, and it’s a beautiful little park set into a hill with the mountains rising up behind it. The PA guy has excellent taste in music. The mascot…
Tag: minor leagues
minor league baseball: hickory crawdads @ winston-salem dash
I had seen the Dash play before, more than 15 years ago, when they still played in the Wake Forest stadium (which at the time was kind of a dump, to be honest). They built Truist Stadium between now and then, and it’s a perfect modern minor league park. All the sightlines are clear, parking…
baseball: red wings @ bulls
Twenty-one. I love being a Triple A area for a lot of reasons, but mostly for rehab starts. Last night out with the Film Critic, the game featured 100% more Justin Morneau than usual.
the american pasttime
Nineteen & twenty. Celebrated independence with a doubleheader yesterday, first the US National Collegiate Team taking on their Japanese counterparts, and then the Bulls (America’s favorite minor league team!) taking on the Braves. It was hot, but lovely.
it’s a nickname waiting to happen
Double dipping with two from the archives, since today guys-I’ve-seen-play-before-they-were-famous seems to be a theme: Alex White (#6) and Dustin Ackley (#13), top, both of whom made their MLB debuts this year, during their last ACC home series at Carolina; and bottom, freshly promoted Indians 3B Lonnie Chisenhall, when he was with the Kinston Indians — who are,…
baseball: scranton wilkes-barre yankees @ durham bulls
Eighteen. The Alpha Site goes to see the Yankees when they come to town every year, because shep.’s a native New Yorker and lifelong Yankees fan; as we like to see the future of my ballclub playing for the Tides (outlook: dismal), we like to see the future of her ballclub, too. They got thumped on Sunday evening, but Kei…
baseball: tides @ bulls, april ’11
Eight. The Tides are 1-8, because everyone useful who was in our farm system is now with the big club, who are also useless. Sigh.
baseball: tides @ bulls, september ’10
Forty one. Final game of the regular season. The Bulls go on to the International League playoffs and the Tides go home for the year, but at least they made it interesting; today’s game went 12 innings. The Bulls won, 6-5. Above, bottom: Zach (left) and Buck (right) Britton are brothers. Zach, younger by 18…
baseball: braves @ bulls, september ’10
Forty. I don’t care at all about the Braves’ farm team as a collective entity, but I’m not going to lie, I’m kind of into Brandon Beachy in specific.
baseball: indy indians @ durham bulls, august ’10
Thirty seven and thirty eight. Bulls rained out Thursday equals a 7-inning double header on Friday; we saw the last six innings of the first game, and the first five of the second. Bulls and Indians split. Notable about the Indianapolis Indians: they are not the Triple A farm club of the Cleveland Indians, which…
brand new kind of photography 