Marilyn Monroe, reading James Joyce’s Ulysses DBAP/ DURHAM—One of the fashionably renovated shopfronts in downtown Durham is now occupied by one of those mover-and-shaker type companies—the kind that like to move into fashionably renovated shopfronts—a consultancy or ad agency or marketing group of the sort whose actual work and purpose is not very clear to […]
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Durham Bulls open homestand, (finally) beat Columbus Clippers: Suddenly, This Summer
Tennessee Williams DBAP/ DURHAM—The Durham Bulls fell behind the Columbus Clippers last night, 4-1, before clustering three run-scoring innings together from the 6th through the 8th and winning, 7-4. Russ Canzler’s three-run homer off of Nick Hagadone in the seventh inning put the Bulls ahead to stay, and R. J. Swindle, Cory Wade and Jake […]
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Hall and Oates, French toast and baseball: Interview with ex-major leaguer Doug Glanville
Doug Glanville was a major-league outfielder from 1996-2004 with the Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies and Texas Rangers. A first-round draft pick of the Cubs in 1991 out of the University of Pennsylvania, Glanville is one of very few African-American Ivy-Leaguers ever to play in the majors (former Durham Bull—and Columbia Lion—Fernando Perez is another). Glanville […]
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Durham Bulls Road Roundup, Vol. 4: Columbust!
The power went out on my block while I was writing this, somewhere around 3:30 p.m., and as of 7:00 there’s still a crew working on it. So this report comes to you from the friendly confines of Fullsteam Brewery, with a beer close at hand. Kind of appropriate to the current, uh, current of […]
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Louisville Bats outslug Durham Bulls, split series: no refunds
DBAP/ DURHAM—On our way home from the DBAP last night, Heather and I were walking by a restaurant with an outdoor patio, where we happened upon a couple we know well. They had been to the Al Pacino show at the Durham Performing Arts Center and were poking at the remains of their dinners. They […]
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Durham Bulls beat Louisville Bats: the most dangerous game
Joel McCrea! DBAP/ DURHAM—”Have you ever heard of a 7-5 nail-biter?” Bulls manager Charlie Montoyo asked, rather rhetorically, after his team beat the Louisville Bats on Wednesday afternoon. The final score was actually 7-4, not 7-5, but Montoyo’s narrowing of the margin to more-or-less nail-biter width said everything you need to know about how much […]
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Louisville Bats rally late, beat Durham Bulls in 10 innings: Wet!
DBAP/ DURHAM—Any Durham Bulls beat writer will, naturally, tend to look at the game from the Bulls’ point of view. But instead of calling last night’s 11-8 Louisville win, in 10 innings, ignominious, embarrassing, etc., perhaps the evenhanded viewer would prefer to appreciate what a superb job the Bats did in coming back from an […]
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Carolina Wren Press author Jeanne Leiby dies
Jeanne Leiby, 1964-2011 Some slightly belated and very sad news coming across the desk here: Jeanne M. Leiby, who was the Editor of the Southern Review (out of Louisiana State University) and whose debut collection of short stories, Downriver, was published by Carolina Wren Press in 2007, died last month in a single-car accident on […]
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Durham Bulls Road Roundup, Vol. 3: Setting the Record Crooked
Paulus Potter, The Bull, 1647 Just a quick jump-in while the Durham Bulls and Syracuse Chiefs wait out more of what has apparently been 36 straight hours of rain in Syracuse. Sunday’s game was washed out, and today’s doubleheader, scheduled to begin at 11:00 a.m., still hasn’t begun as of 12:10 p.m. If the rain […]
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Indianapolis Indians down Durham Bulls, let them up, down them again: Grad School
DBAP/ DURHAM—Basically, two separate games: the slated Indianapolis starter, Sean Gallagher, was scratched. The word was that he was originally going to be replaced by reliever Garrett Olson, who pitched three scoreless relief innings against Durham on Monday night—but instead, Justin Wilson wound up taking the hill. That created a rematch with the Bulls’ Alexander […]