The Greensboro Grasshoppers are at home tonight everybody! Let's all buy a ticket and head to town. For those of you from elsewhere, we have a Class A team that plays in the South Atlantic League. Since 2003, the Grasshoppers have been a farm team for the Florida Marlins. Our stadium was built in 2005 and it seats 7,499 fans. Our baseball team has had several nicknames (Patriots, Hornets, Bats, and now, Grasshoppers). According to Wikipedia, the team first played at Cone Park on the property of Cone Mills. Then it moved to War Memorial Stadium; now, the team plays in NewBridge Bank Park (seen above) at 408 Bellemeade Street. You can follow them (here) on Facebook!
Greensboro's baseball history is actually pretty interesting and available on Wikipedia where we found most of this information! This is our entry for Ruby Tuesday. In case the brick isn't red enough, the lady in the bulls eye red shirt in the center of the photo has us covered!
Lots of red for the grasshoppers!! Happy Ruby Tuesday!
Posted by: Mar | Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 02:37 AM
We have a double A team for the Houston Astros in our town. And sadly, we haven't attended a game yet this season...too darned humid and hot. LOL
My RT is HERE
A note: I'm going to begin a new meme, started tomorrow evening. You may be interested in participating...at least stop by tomorrow around 6PM my time zone to find out what it's going to be like....
Have a great day just filled with loads of sunshine!!!
Posted by: Hootin' Anni | Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 05:55 AM
I'd say there's plenty of redness here!
Hope you had a good time.
Posted by: bj | Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 06:58 AM
Love that game..Baseball. Has always been my favorite sport to watch.
My Ruby link for you
Posted by: Auntie E | Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 07:50 AM
I see this and think of BULL DURHAM.
Posted by: Bill B | Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 03:57 PM