Uptown/ Downtown in Old Charleston By Louis D. Rubin Jr. University of South Carolina Press, 114 pp. Louis Rubin appears at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 16, at McIntyre’s Fine Books in Pittsboro’s Fearrington Village with author Jill McCorkle. The sensitive, lonely, romantic young man is a Modernist literary type, largely abandoned by the fast pace, […]
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Durham Bulls lose to Toledo Mud Hens at Historic Durham Athletic Park: “I feel like I’m in a movie.”
Jeremy M. LangeHeath Phillips throws a pitch in the first inning of last night’s game. DAP/DURHAM—Who knows when I’ll get to use “DAP/DURHAM” again for my dateline? I was prepared, as a book critic, to get very Proustian on you last night. Memory, nostalgia and the accompanying ache were all over this game—especially for me, […]
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Durham Bulls thumped by Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees: More questions than answers
Durham BullsJeremy Hellickson DBAP/DURHAM—The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees beat the Durham Bulls last night, 9-3, in a game that had me searching for answers in a deep sort of way that I was unaccustomed to doing. What was wrong with Jeremy Hellickson, who took his first loss of the season? Why has the league’s most potent offense […]
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Durham Bulls down Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees in slugfest: Complications
Durham BullsAlvin Colina DBAP/DURHAM—It was already warm and headed for hot when the Durham Bulls’ Aneury Rodriguez threw Thursday’s first pitch at 11:07 AM. It was the season’s second and last “Education Day,” but because the Bulls had Wednesday off after an eight-game road trip to Buffalo and Rochester, they looked sprightlier than they did […]
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Durham Bulls Drop Homestand Finale to Gwinnett Braves: Earlyburly
DBAP/DURHAM—This morning I finished my breakfast and went straight to the DBAP. It’s pretty disorienting to be still digesting your oatmeal at game time, when you’re still groggy from the previous night’s lucubrations. I had wagered that none of the ballplayers would admit to hating an 11:00 AM first pitch, even though that’s when they’re […]
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Durham Bulls pound Gwinnett Braves: Not kidding
Aneury Rodriguez DBAP/DURHAM—”The Bulls are not kidding around right now,” a dad explained to his very young son during the top of the seventh inning of Durham’s 9-1 trouncing of the Gwinnett Braves. Braves’ designated hitter Barbaro Canizares had just hit a ball to rather deep right field, where Justin Ruggiano hauled it in without […]
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Durham Bulls rally to edge Gwinnett Braves: Battlers Up!
The Bulls’ Brian Baker earned Friday’s win. DBAP/DURHAM—During Jeremy Hellickson’s warmup pitches before the top of the first inning last night, something didn’t seem quite right. Hard to say what, exactly; after the game he said he felt fine in the bullpen and then on the mound. But he walked two of the first three […]
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Durham Bulls edge Charlotte Knights in 12 innings: Small-ball ends a long day
Virgil Vasquez DBAP/DURHAM—Triangle Offense was forced to leave the DBAP during the 92-minute rain delay that made a long game longer. The game time of the the Bulls’ 12-inning, 6-5 win over Charlotte was 3:36, but if you stayed all the way through, you spent five-plus hours at the ballpark. Circumstances forced me away with […]
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Durham Bulls whip Charlotte Knights: Thunder Dan Johnson
The Bulls exacted some revenge on Carlos Torres last night. The International League All-Star righty had dominated the Durham last year, going 4-0 with a sub-1.00 ERA. But the Bulls got to him
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Durham Bulls’ Jeremy Hellickson named International League Pitcher of the Week
After last night’s domination of the Norfolk Tides, whom he’s now beaten twice already this season, Jeremy Hellickson (left) was named International League Pitcher of the Week. The Silent Cyclone also beat Gwinnett last week, allowing four hits and one run over 6 1/3 innings on Tuesday. By the way, Carlos Torres, who pitches for […]