The Historic Durham Athletic Park plays host April 27-29 to the Third Annual Sandlot Revival, an event that draws teams from as far as New York and New Orleans.
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Sunday Reading: ESPN Details Durham Bulls’ Pitcher Tyler Zombro’s Recovery
In a sensitive but straightforward piece, ESPN writer Tonya Simpson and columnist Jeff Passan reveal the specifics of Zombro’s injury and talk about who he is as a player, husband, and pitching coach.
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The Future Of Durham’s Old Ballpark: More Baseball
The Bulls left and now NCCU doesn’t play there anymore. But for the time being, there’s plenty of baseball on the legendary field.
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Got a Million Bucks? Want to Own the “Bull Durham” House? Here’s Your Chance.
Annie Savoy’s “Bull Durham” crash pad is up for sale.
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Ever in the Shadow of the Durham Bulls, the Carolina Mudcats—the Triangle’s Other Minor League Team—Want to Get Your Attention
The drive always seems longer than it should be. You might, on your first or even fifth time humming along the route, check your GPS during that final stretch of N.C. 39 off U.S. 64 in far-eastern Wake County, just to make sure you aren’t being led astray, to a different patch of rural land, […]
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The Bulls Are Back in Town: A Primer on the Return of the Home Team (and the Greatest Rock ’n’ Roll Band Ever)
If I were a more inspired man, I might record a novelty version of Thin Lizzy’s “The Boys Are Back In Town” for the Durham Bulls’ return to action this week. Guess who just got back today? Them wild-eyed Bulls that’d been away. The Bulls are back in town. The Bulls are back in town. […]
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The Durham Bulls Are Champions. But Does It Matter?
The Durham Bulls won the International League championship on Friday. It was their fifth title and eleventh finals appearance in the last fifteen yearsan extraordinary accomplishment, especially in the volatile context of Triple-A minor-league baseball, where rosters change almost daily under a major-league “parent club” that promotes and demotes players at its whim, rendering the […]
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As the Durham Bulls Enter the Playoffs, We Wonder: What Exactly Is the Value of a Minor-League Championship?
The Durham Bulls begin the International League championship series at home tonight. It’s the Bulls’ seventh appearance in the finals in ten years, a remarkable accomplishment in the volatile realm of Triple-A baseball. But what exactly is the value of a minor-league championship, even to the players vying for it? They wear Durham Bulls uniforms […]
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No, Guardian: Durham Is Not a Rundown Southern Backwater
“They call it ‘Bull City,’ though, with the exception of a downtown statue, there are no bulls and there’s no evidence that there ever were.” That sentence begins Sunday’s generally pointless Guardian piece by Michael Keenan Gutierrez, a UNC writing instructor who lives in Chapel Hill, titled “A Postcard from Durham: Keeping It Dirty in […]