Archive for May, 2007

Day 26—Durham Bulls

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

The Durham Bulls, made famous by the movie Bull Durham and Kevin Costner (who seems to have been in every baseball movie with the exception of The Natural and The Sandlot), play their games at Durham Bulls Athletic Park, better known as the “D-Bap”, located in downtown Durham. This place feels like a Major League […]

Day 25—Hickory Crawdads

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

After an all-day drive from Virginia, we arrived in Hickory shortly before the game started. Edyta and Chris took over the bulk of the fundraising duties this evening, and they did a pretty good job—we had our 3rd highest fundraising night yet! A special thanks to Charlie for giving us such a great raffle prize […]

Day 24—Norfolk Tides

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Today we were joined by a very special Tour for the Cure Team member, Edyta. Unfortunately we couldn’t do anything at the Norfolk Tides game due to their own policies regarding outside groups like ours, but a little birdie who will remain anonymous was able to get us three tickets to the game so we […]

Day 23—Kinston Indians

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Tonight we were joined by our first honorary Tour for the Cure Team member, First Lieutenant James Mahoney of the one and only US Marines. In other circles, Jim is also known as Jimbo11824, J-Mo, Jim, Jimmy, Swimmy Jimmy, and the infamous, Bubbles Mahoney. He brought the muscle and discipline to the fundraising effort—and with […]