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by TREY WILSON We unveiled these beautiful Jabba the Hutt jerseys yesterday. The Curve will wear them on May 30 against Binghamton at PNG Field, and the jerseys will be auctioned off with all proceeds benefiting the St. Vincent DePaul Society Soup Kitchen. We told you it was different… #JabbatheHutt gets his own jersey for … More Unveiling our Jabba the Hutt jerseys
by TREY WILSON A wild first weekend of the NCAA Tournament is in the books, and with it, the standings in the 2015 Curve Bracket Challenge have started to take shape. Up for grabs are a pair of tickets to the Curve’s home opener against the Akron RubberDucks on April 16 at PNG Field for … More Updates: Curve Bracket Challenge and Steamer’s surgery
by TREY WILSON Hitting the mid-point of March means two things: Altoona Curve baseball will be returning to PNG Field very soon, and everyone is about to come down with a case of March Madness. The NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Tournament begins on Tuesday, and we want to join in on the fun! Do you … More 2015 Curve Bracket Challenge
Sadly our trip down to 80-degree temperatures and places where the crack of the bat never stops has reached its last full day. After a stop by the MLB clubhouse in the morning before they headed to Port Charlotte to take on the Rays, it was back over to Pirate City for the first official … More Fun in the Sun: Day 3 from Bradenton, Fla.
Man what a gorgeous day it was today in Bradenton! Unfortunately the game ended in a tie but, hey, it’s Spring Training. We spent all day on location at McKechnie Field and arrived at 7:30 a.m. when the clubhouses opened so we could talk with some more former Curve player. FYI…T-shirt and pants weather in … More Fun in the Sun: Day Two from Spring Training
If you’d been following along on social media anytime over the last couple of days, you might have noticed we’ve flown south for a little Spring Training action this season! We’re down here in beautiful Bradenton, Fla., Spring Training home of our parents, the Pittsburgh Pirates and we’ll be posting here the next few days … More Fun In the Sun… Day 1
Opening Day for the Curve is exactly FIVE WEEKS from today. This year’s squad will take the field to open the 2015 season on April 9 at Harrisburg. With Spring Training games kicking off this week down in the Grapefruit League, a lot is still up in the air concerning which players will be heading to … More Predicting the 2015 Altoona Curve
Hello, Curve fans! My name is Trey Wilson, and I am extremely excited to join the Curve this year. You’ll hear me on the air with Mike Passanisi, and I’ll be working to bring you entertaining and informative content here on the CurveBall Blog all season long. But first, a little bit about me: I am … More A ‘hello’ from the newest member of the Curve broadcast & media team.
Our final full day in San Diego wasn’t without a full list of things to do. I myself headed into the MiLB Media Relations session to start my day while other members of the staff hit the trade show for one final day of ordering and the like for 2015. Just a few blocks down … More Winter Meetings Wrapup
Day two of the Baseball Winter Meetings was not as hectic as the first but still productive nonetheless with most of the staff devoting a good portion of their time today to the Trade Show, which is taking place at the neighboring Convention Center. Much has been written on this blog about what goes on … More Winter Meetings Diary: Day Two
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