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A Season and Team Remembered: Images of the Kinston Indians Final Season
Saturday marked the final game in the long association of Kinston North Carolina and their advanced Single-A Carolina League team the Kinston Indians. The K-Tribe as they were affectionately known was sold in a deal to replace the AA Southern … Continue reading
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Celebration in Kinston as K-Tribe Wraps Up Carolina League South Title
The Kinston Indians (Cleveland) are now on the verge of finishing their 25th and final season in the Eastern North Carolina city in a grand fashion by defeating the Myrtle Beach Pelicans (Texas) for the Carolina League Southern Division title. … Continue reading
A Walk off in Kinston amid Irene’s Destruction
I went to Kinston last night to see the Kinston Indians during their final home stand of their 25 years in this historic Eastern North Carolina town. Next year the Indians will move to Zebulon NorthCarolinawhere they will be called … Continue reading
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Remembering the Men of the Negro Leagues: Carl Long Appreciation Day
Carl Long Night: L-R James “Spot”King, Hubert “Big Daddy”Wooten, Dennis “Bose”Biddle and Carl Long at Historical Grainger Stadium Friday I had the privilege of being invited to spend a portion of the day a number of former Negro League players, … Continue reading
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The Gift My Dad Gave to Me: Baseball and the Mystery of Life
The Big A This post is an updated and edited version of an article that I published here in 2009. It is something that I come back to often because it deals with my dad and the influence that he … Continue reading
Opening Day 2011: How Baseball Helps Padre Steve Make Sense of the World
The Church of Baseball Harbor Park Parish “This is my most special place in all the world, Ray. Once a place touches you like this, the wind never blows so cold again. You feel for it, like it was your … Continue reading
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34 Hours: Reflections on Family, Service and Baseball amid Life and Death
John Lackey and the Angels fought back to Send the ALCS back to New York defeating the Yankess 7-6 in Anaheim Photo by Stephen Dunn/Getty Images I’m a bit reflective today after a long on-call duty in the medical center … Continue reading
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Minor League Road Trips
Grainger Stadium Kinston NC “The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This … Continue reading
