White Sox Opening Day: 39 Degrees and Billion-Dollar Burgers

April 2, 2013 by Terry Keshner · 1 Comment

The Chicago White Sox opened the 2013 season on Monday by beating the Kansas City Royals, 1-0, at U. S. Cellular Field in front of an announced crowd of 39,000 people. In other words, there were one thousand people in the ballpark for every degree in the air. The high temperature in Chicago for the […]

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Harper-Less Hagerstown Suns Open with a Flourish

April 6, 2012 by Austin Gisriel · Leave a Comment

A very respectable crowd of 2,078 turned out on a very chilly Opening Night, to watch the Bryce Harper-less Hagerstown Suns play the West Virginia Power in Sally League action on Thursday. Still, the contrast between this year and last year when 6,017 came to watch Harper’s minor league debut was stark to the point […]

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