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
Former Pirates’ All-Star Second Baseman Carlos Garcia was named the seventh manager in Altoona Curve history back in January. On Monday, eleven days before he and his team will arrive in Altoona, Garcia chatted with me for a few minutes about his time as a player and minor league manager in the Pittsburgh organization. Egan: … More Carlos in Charge: Garcia Takes Reins in Altoona
It doesn’t take long to see the Altoona connections in this quiet town on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Pirates’ fans from our area have been coming here for years – long before the Curve existed. However, the ties the Mountain City has enjoyed here the last 15 spring trainings have been strengthened immeasurably with the advent … More Curve 101: Altoona Influence All Over Bradenton
One of the most anticipated events in the 15-year history of the Altoona Curve is now just days away. The Pirates-Curve exhibition game will be held on March 30 with the first pitch scheduled for 2 p.m. There are still standing room only tickets available for the event. These tickets can be purchased at the … More Curve and Pirates Exhibition Game Draws Near
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