Coming attractions at Ballpark Digest: several new baseball books in coming weeks, including a Southern League history, as we look to the second million-page-view month in a row. Site updates this week have been slow for one simple reason: we’re prepping a whole slew of new-book titles for the winter and spring, and there are […]
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Holly Springs moving ahead with ballpark, CPL team
The greater Raleigh-Durham area will see even more baseball, as Holly Springs moves ahead with a plan to build a new ballpark for a summer-collegiate Coastal Plain League team. We reported on the potential of a new Holly Springs ballpark a year ago, when Pete Bock pitched local officials on an economic study of a […]
Reviving Devereux Meadows
The old Devereux Meadows ballpark site in Raleigh, N.C., home to the Raleigh Capitals and the Raleigh-Durham Triangles (Carolina League), could be revived as a city park. The former home to minor-league baseball in Raleigh — where Carl Yastrzemski, Greg Luzinski and Cliff Johnson targeted a left-field fence some 315 feet out (the same as […]