Monday the 12th found me visiting my second consecutive Bus Leagues park with a good Babe Ruth story: It was in Asheville that the Swat Sultan finally succumbed to the “belly-ache heard round the world,” which limited him to just 98 games and a measly .936 OPS for the 1925 season—too many hot dogs slathered with that super-tangy VD brand mustard, apparently. Six years later during an exhibition game in Chattanooga, Ruth earned himself...
You can drive all the way to historic McCormick Field in Asheville, North Carolina, but if you’re from Jersey, as I am, it can still feel damn near impossible to shake the Garden State. This night’s offering in the single-A South Atlantic League: The hometown Asheville Tourists, affiliates of the Colorado Rockies, take on the Lakewood (NJ) BlueClaws, 2009′s Sally League champions and minor-league feeders to the Philadelphia Phillies. McCormick is one of those...
A summit of sorts occurred last week at…wait, what’s the beautiful riverfront park in Manchester, NH, called? When it was built in 1998, it was Singer Family Park, but recently they changed it. Riverside Yards? Elysian Field? No? Oh, right: It’s Merchantsauto.com Stadium now. Okay, as a tangent to this story, can anybody cite a crappier name for a stadium anywhere, ever? But as I was saying, a summit of sorts occurred last week...
Here at Bus Leagues, we get by with a little help from our friends. With hundreds of minor-league teams and stadiums in the United States alone, we don’t even entertain the notion that we can visit all of them. That’s where helpful readers come in. A friend of the site who comments under the moniker “willenvelope” offered us some shots taken at Waterfront Stadium, home of the AA Trenton Thunder (Yankees). There’s no way...
2012 05 14 Scranton Wilks Barre/ Empire State Yankees vs Pawtucket Red Sox
