Up From the AshesStaring at Tri-City Baseball Park's pictureBAM! came an eerie recognition. E-mailing the photo's keeper, my message was insane- I could swear I was looking at Duke Power Field (city monument to potbellied slowpitch softballers). AND SO I WAS! Only part of Tri-City was torn down; the rest uprooted and replanted (God knows how) 3/4 of a mile down the road. Imagine: eating, sleeping, and breathing baseball history from age 8, sitting in those bleachers, CLUELESS of their significance. Tri-City's roof was an unwanted bastard- sold to Danville in the late 40's, closing Ballou Park in 1958, and now atop Burlington's Fairchild Stadium. Stands sitting alone at 3 a.m. under a full moon, their grey paint glowed silver as I recited the litany of wonderful, mediocre, and terrible battling like gamecocks before TWO lights on two poles in left center and right center- Martinsville Athletics Danville Leafs Winston Salem Cardinals Durham Bulls Greensboro Patriots Raleigh Caps Burlington Bees and Tri-City Trips. The devil chants a twisted Kipling refrain- time is change - but is it art? Dan Grey Taylor Jr. Leave feedback on our message board. |