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Greetings from sunny Southern California! The annual Baseball Winter Meetings are in full swing over here on the west coast and they’ve returned to San Diego for the first time since 1985. Back then, Marty McFly was travelling back to 1955, the local sports teams (Padres and Chargers) were both playing at what was then … More Winter Meetings Day One
Curve fans…All-Star Week is here! The Curve are wrapping up their series in Harrisburg today and then it’s on to the Eastern League All-Star Stop presented by UPMC Health Plan! We’ve got a ton of events coming up over the next two days so we thought we’d help break it down in this edition of … More All-Star Stop | The Fan Guide
We’re nearly midway through June and the Curve are out on their longest trip of the year. While they’re gone, it gave us some time to dig back through all of the top plays from May and see which ones we liked most. We’ve got a pretty good collection here so watch the video below … More The Rewind — Vol. 2 (May)
This edition of Week in Tweets covers Memorial Day to the first day of June! This week we cover everything from honoring servicemen and women to Adam Hyzdu to stranded ships to a beautiful weekend of games here in Curve, PA. We started with Memorial Day as we honored all of our veterans, service men, … More This Week in Tweets: May 26th – June 1st
This Week in Tweets showcases a cheers to “Cheers,” school kids days, and ended with the team in Erie to take on the SeaWolves. As always make sure you read all the way to the end to see if your tweet is our weekly “Tweet of the Week” which would make you our winner! We … More This Week in Tweets May 19-25
It is that time of week again where we recap the previous week through your tweets. This week including amazing plays, a garden gnome and an appearance of a clown. Make sure to read all the way to the end to see if your tweet was this week’s “Tweet of the Week.” We started the … More The Week in Tweets: May 12-18
The first of many Pirates-themed giveaways in the Gerrit Cole Garden Gnome will be handed out to the first 1,500 fans today(Saturday) thanks to Peoples. We tried to honor some of recent and distant Curve players that have gone on to become stars with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Cole is the first in that series. … More Making the Cole Gnome
HELLO! It is that time again for another installment of This Week in Tweets. We have had quite an eventful week, so let’s recap it using some of your tweets! Make sure to read all the way to the end to see if your tweet was this week’s “Tweet of the Week”! Be sure to … More This Week in Tweets: May 5- May 11
This Week in Tweets are going to cover our series in Erie as the Curve took on the SeaWolves and then they returned to Altoona for a series with the Akron Rubberducks for the weekend. Make sure to follow us on twitter (@AltoonaCurve)! Our Week in Tweets started with, yep you guessed it, rain. @erie_seawolves … More This Week in Tweets: April 28th- May 4th
The first month of the season is drawing to a close as the Curve prepare to play Erie today on Wednesday in a doubleheader at Jerry Uht Park in Erie. It’s been very rainy so far this morning so it’s given us time to put together this blog and our first Rewind of the 2014 … More The Rewind Vol. 1 – April
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