CurveBall Blog is the official blog site of the Altoona Curve, Double-A affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
From the Bus Curve, Pa. to Binghamton, N.Y. – 223 miles (Travel time: 4 hours) Team Movies Watched: 0 Broadcaster Movies Watched: 0 Broadcaster Books Read: Inferno by Dan Brown Hours Slept: 1:15 It was a wet bus ride from Curve, Pa. to here in Binghamton as it rained pretty much the entire way and … More Blogging from the Bus: Shakes
From the Bus Richmond, Va. to Reading, Pa. – 257 miles (Travel time: 4 hours, 21 minutes) Team Movies Watched: 0 (one was attempted but it was either video and no sound or sound and no video) Broadcaster Movies Watched: 0 Broadcaster Books Started: Inferno by Dan Brown Hours Slept: 1 A bus ride from … More Blogging from the Bus: Reading Rainbow
From the Bus Erie, Pa. to Harrisburg, Pa. – 304 miles (Travel Time: 5 hours, 21 minutes) Team Movies Watched: 2.5 (Walk the Line, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, Wedding Crashers) Broadcaster Movies Watched: 1 (The Hobbit) Broadcaster Books Finished: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern Hours slept: 1 hour It’s that time … More Blogging from the Bus: Triple Features
From the Bus Richmond, Va. to Curve, Pa. – 271 miles (Travel Time: 4 hours, 13 minutes) Team Movies Watched: 2 (Slapshot, American Pie 2) Broadcaster Movies Watched: 0 (it didn’t finish downloading to my iPad before we left #fail) Broadcaster Books Read: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern Hours slept: 1:45 Another 10:30 a.m. … More Blogging from the Bus: Homeward Bound
From the Bus Harrisburg, Pa. to Richmond, Va. – 220 miles (travel time 3 hours, 37 minutes) Team movies watched: 2 (The Sandlot, Lord of War) Broadcaster movies watched : 1 (This is 40) Hours slept: 1:20 We find ourselves back on the bus making our way from Harrisburg to the River City, Richmond, Va. … More Rollin on the River
From the Bus Curve, Pa. to Harrisburg, Pa. – 133 miles (Travel time: 2 hours) Movies watched: 0 Hours slept: 0:45 minutes A pair of wins in one day is always nice and it always seems to make a bus ride easier the next day. With the pair of wins on Wednesday, the Curve finished … More Blogging from the Bus: Capitals & Rivers
From the Bus Akron, Ohio to Curve, Pa. – 200 miles (Travel Time: 3 hours, 24 minutes) Movies watched: 1 – Gangster Squad Hours slept: 0 Well, unfortunately we were unable to play the final game of our road trip in Akron due to some extremely wet weather but it did mean we got to … More From the Bus: Mama, I’m Coming Home
From the Bus Erie, Pa. to Akron, Ohio – 125 miles (Travel Time: 2 hours, 4 minutes) Movies watched: 1 – Life of Pi Hours slept: :50 That was a tough loss to end the series in Erie but in baseball you must have a short memory as we are hopefully off to bigger and … More Blogging from the Bus: Zippy
From the Bus Apirl 4, 2013 Altoona , Pa. to Erie, Pa. – 202 miles Movies watched: 0 Time slept: 1:15 Welcome to the first edition of what I sincerely hope will be a series of blogs that will all be written on our bus trips throughout the season in an effort to better keep … More Blogging from the Bus: Opening Day
By Rob Egan Jameson Taillon is part of the “one-two punch” that new Altoona Curve manager Carlos Garcia described this week when talking about the future of the Pittsburgh Pirates’ rotation. The hard-throwing right-hander, who won all three of his starts with the Curve late last season, will return to the Double-A club to begin … More Who Are You? Who Who, Who Who
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