Our expanded netting has been installed just in time for Opening Day, April 7th. The old backstop, behind home plate, was about 2400 square feet. The new net, extending to the end of each dugout, is almost 8500 square feet. I submit that fan protection is improved by 250%. WRAL TV's Leyla Santiago was at the DBAP Thursday as the project was being finished. Watch her report.
I'm VP for Special Projects at Capitol Broadcasting Co. This is my 37th year at CBC, and my office is in the Durham Bulls Athletic Park - a great place to work. (And wonderfully distracting!)
CBC owns the Bulls, the Holly Springs Salamanders, operates three sports-talk radio stations in Raleigh and wralSPORTSfan.com. Our radio brands are 99.9 The Fan, Buzz Sports Radio and The Ticket. We are a partner with Learfield Sports at Wolfpack Sports Properties, and our TV stations connect viewers with NBC and Fox sports. Our radio stations are the RDU flagships for NC State, Duke Univ, the NHL Carolina Hurricanes and the Bulls.
We even built a basketball court at our American Tobacco complex in Durham and a play area for grown-ups! There's a brewery in the ballpark, too. It's work. It's play. I can't always tell the difference!?!
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