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July 7, 2025

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Minor league baseball wraps up

September 24, 2024 Shawn Krest

Durham Bulls The Bulls opened the Triple-A season with one of the top minor league prospects in baseball, in Junior Caminero. The perennial championship contenders struggled, however. Caminero missed extended time with an injury, then […]

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Bulls’ Tristan Gray gets long-awaited call from the bigs

September 20, 2023 Shawn Krest

DURHAM — Baseball always seems to have a plan for its top prospects. Those plans never seemed to include Tristan Gray. During COVID when the minor leagues were shut down, each team got to keep […]

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Keep going: Bulls slogan keeps David Hess fighting

July 31, 2023 Shawn Krest

David Hess knew something was wrong. He just self-diagnosed the wrong thing. Hess spent most of the 2021 season with the Durham Bulls, who were winning their first of back-to-back Triple-A titles. His Bulls tenure […]

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Another domino falls on road to MLB expansion

April 26, 2023 The Associated Press

The Oakland Athletics will be packing their bags for Las Vegas, a long-expected move that will affect baseball’s fandom far beyond those two cities. MLB is now a significant step closer to expansion, which will […]

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Camels crash 1st round of MLB Draft

July 20, 2022 Brett Friedlander

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, […]

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Durham Bulls pair Hollywood reputation, on-field success

July 13, 2022 Brett Friedlander

DURHAM — Crash Davis and Ebby Calvin “Nuke” LaLoosh are among the two most famous players in Durham Bulls history. And yet neither of them, as presented in the movie, ever appeared in a game […]

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Keep Going: Tyler Zombro returns to mound for Durham Bulls

May 11, 2022 North State Journal Staff

The Durham Bulls received their championship rings for having the best record in Triple-A last season. In addition to the cluster of diamonds on the face and the names and logos carved into gold on […]

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MLB playoff contenders built from NC minor leagues

October 6, 2021 Shawn Krest

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 […]

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Wolfpack products lead MLB All-Stars with NC ties

July 7, 2021 Shawn Krest

NC State’s previous trip to the College World Series — and the last time the Wolfpack were eliminated from college baseball’s championship on the field in Omaha — came in 2013. The Wolfpack were led […]

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WanderVision: Franco’s time with Bulls is going, going…

May 26, 2021 Shawn Krest

How good is Wander Franco? Fans in Durham are talking about him as if he’s already gone. “That’s where the grand slam landed.” “Remember his four-hit night? The impossible plays in the field? The car? […]

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