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Slate: What Seth Stevenson learned at the Wendelstedt School for Umpires.

Slate: What Seth Stevenson learned at the Wendelstedt School for Umpires. Long ago, between college and fatherhood, I was obsessed with minor-league baseball and historic ballparks, seeing games in Bradenton and Durham, Dunedin and Melbourne, Little Rock and St. Catherines,...

Posted by Michael Bates on May 18, 2016 7:56 AM

Greensboro's Treasured Places: What's Going On In There?

Greensboro's Treasured Places: What's Going On In There? Greensboro, N. C., will use high tech, including ground-penetrating radar, to look beneath the surface of the 80-year-old War Memorial, to determine the soundness of concrete structure and its potential for adaptive...

Posted by Michael Bates on December 8, 2008 6:19 PM

Instapundit.com - A READER AT A MAJOR NEWSROOM EMAILS

Instapundit.com - A READER AT A MAJOR NEWSROOM EMAILS "Off the record, every suspicion you have about MSM being in the tank for O is true. We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 30, 2008 12:19 AM

Wayne Terwilliger

Wayne Terwilliger The manager of the 1980 Tulsa Drillers is now a coach for the Ft. Worth Cats, in his 60th year in professional baseball as a player, manager, or coach. As an 80-year-old in 2005, he led the Cats...

Posted by Michael Bates on August 12, 2008 12:55 AM