Baseball

Project Follows A Year In The Life Of The Durham Bulls

Frank Stasio and Nicole Campbell — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:02:29 +0000

Yesterday was the first home game for the 2013 baseball season at Durham Bulls Athletic Park, and fans gathered to watch the heroic Bulls defeat the Gwinnett Braves.

Meet Dirk Hayhurst

Frank Stasio and Lindsay Foster Thomas — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:46:23 +0000

Not many baseball players can also say they’ve written a New York Times bestseller. Pitcher Dirk Hayhurst can. When first he picked up a pen to write a memoir about life in the bullpen, he never expected that he would become a critically acclaimed author. Readers ate up Hayhurst’s honesty about success, failure and the often strange culture of sports as documented in “The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran” (Citadel Press/2010).

Minor-League Shakeup

Dave DeWitt — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:47:00 +0000

The Carolina Mudcats minor-league baseball team has been sold to a group in Florida. The team is slated to move after next season.

The Mudcats Double-A franchise is leaving largely due to the travel costs associated with flying to games in the far-flung Southern League.