Andruw Jones returns to Durham
DURHAM – Andruw Jones’ highlights in the major leagues came with a powerful bat and scintillating outfield defense. He’d like to limit it to showcasing a home run swing when he participates in the upcoming […]
DURHAM – Andruw Jones’ highlights in the major leagues came with a powerful bat and scintillating outfield defense. He’d like to limit it to showcasing a home run swing when he participates in the upcoming […]
While the story of the first day of the Major League Baseball Draft was LSU teammates Paul Skenes and Dylan Crews going 1-2 to the Pirates and Nationals, respectively, North Carolina also made some noise […]
October is famous for crowning new cult heroes during baseball’s postseason, and this year has already found a prime candidate to join them: The Big Dumper. Cal Raleigh’s nickname — which celebrates the Seattle catcher’s […]
Members of the Campbell baseball team fancy themselves as “a bunch of nobodies from nowhere” because of their remote location in Buies Creek and the considerable shadow cast by their nationally recognized neighbors at UNC, […]
HOUSTON — Most of the season, it just seemed this wasn’t their year. They dropped their first four games, and soon injuries piled up. They lost their most dynamic player before the All-Star break. They […]
The last time Dusty Baker was in the World Series, his son nearly got run down. Darren Baker, then 3 years old, was helping his dad’s San Francisco team as a very small batboy when […]
Free football isn’t always free. As the Carolina Panthers drove downfield for a game-tying touchdown and two-point conversion in the final minute of play on Sunday, one thing became clear: I wasn’t getting back to […]
The MLB playoffs open this week, and the Durham Bulls and Charlotte Knights will battle for the chance to win the World Series. Not the current editions of the Bulls and Knights, of course, but […]
NEW YORK — Atlanta lost Major League Baseball’s summer All-Star Game on Friday over the league’s objections to sweeping changes to Georgia voting laws that critics — including the CEOs of Atlanta-based Delta Air […]
Growing up in Atlanta, I spent a lot of warm summer nights during the 1970s going to the ballpark with my homeroom buddy Steve Fritts to watch the Braves play baseball. Being a Braves fan […]
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