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6 Friday, February 10,1995 Durham Stadium Prepares for Spring It’s Not the Same Old Bull In Right Field as Ballpark Preps for Extra Attention BY RYAN THORNBURG CITY EDITOR • DURHAM —Despite the snow on the • infield, the Durham Bulls continued to I move into their new home one week before ;major league spring training is scheduled ;to begin. • The grass has been laid on the field, the of the seats is beginning and, Jon Thursday, two 190-foot light towers Jwent up in the outfield of the stadium, •which is already one year behind schedule. • The Durham Bulls, Single A affiliate of Jthe Atlanta Braves, are perpetually one of Jihe most watched minor league baseball •teams in the nation, and their new stadium •reflects success few other Single A teams Jenjoy. J “This ballpark is considered one of the • top two minor league ballparks in the coun rtry," said Kevin Estrella, public relations 'director for the Bulls, during a tour of the Baseball Players May Accept Usery’s Preliminary Proposal THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON Lenny Dykstra, still considering becoming a strikebreaker, said Thursday that players should consider accepting the proposal offered by mediator W.J. Usery. The mediator, in a rare public state ment, backed away from the ideas he sug gested to the sides on Tuesday, saying they weren’t his final recommendation. President Ginton’s legislation for bind ing arbitration remained stuck in Con gress, and union head Donald Fehr pre pared to schedule anew set of meetings. 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Franklin Street • Chapel Hill • 929-2580 • M-F 10-6, Sat. 10-5 construction site. The new ballpark incorporates style from the old Durham Athletic Park with mod em amenities unavailable at the historic field, Estrella said. Fans who enjoyed lounging on the grass in the outfield at the DAP will still be able to do so at the new park, as long as they don’t mind doing it in right field instead of left. Left field at the Bulls’ new home will be occupied by a 26-foot wall similar to Boston’s famous Green Monster. “The outfield area will have grass seat ing similar to Walnut Creek, ” Estrella said. “The bottom of the hill will begin at the top of the outfield wall so fans will be able to hang over and catch a foul ball or throw a Coke on the center fielder,” he said. Other favorites from the DAP won’t be left out of the new stadium. Players emu lating the movie version of “Crash” Davis will still be able to “Hit Bull, Win Steak.” “We’re going to have a bigger and better bull in right field,” Estella said. “The old one is going to be here, too, and we’re going to incorporate him in the design.” The old bull, which became a famous part of Durham tradition after it was used as a prop in the movie “Bull Durham,” was Union leader DONALD FEHR plans to schedule more talks. Dykstra, won dering whether the union should change its tactics, said he hadn’t de cided if he will re port when the regu lar season starts. “Lenny Dykstra loves baseball; Lenny Dykstra is fortunate to be play ing in the major leagues; Lenny supposed to have its final resting place at the Baseball Hall ofFame in Cooperstown, N.Y., but there was no room large enough to house the beast. The bull isn’t the only part of the new stadium that will be bigger and better. Seating and parking capacity have both been expanded. The old ballpark had half the seating capacity of the new one. The new park will have 6,340 seats and will be able to hold 9,500 people when standing room is used. That seating capacity is near the require ment for Triple A teams. And those thousand extra seats are top of the line, Estrella said. Even the seats that will take the place of the general admission benches found at the DAP will be two inches wider than seats in most ballparks. Fans aren’t the only ones who will be stoked by added amenities of the Bulls’ new home. The players’ and umpires’ locker rooms are substantially larger than the DAP’s facilities, Estrella said. “This is going to be one of the best locker rooms the players will have until they get to the major league level, ” he said. He said the new training room alone, com plete with whirlpool spa, was larger than Dykstra wants to play baseball in 1995,”he told ESPN. “As far as going across, you’ll have to ask me again in April.” Dykstra said baseball’s top players would soon discuss the strike with Fehr. “If you ask me, I think that Usery tried to do what’s best for both sides; he kind of, it looks like, cut everything in half, ” Dykstra said. “I think there’s a big chance we can get something done in his arena there with what he proposed.” Usery was upset that management cir culated a two-page document containing the ideas the mediator conveyed to the Romano’s 9izza^itcbeo s>izza Jfade ‘from Scratch Fast, Friendly FREE Delivery! 928*5005 Opn lunch *nd dlnnur Pepperoni Lovers’ Pizza (Double pepperoni on a bed of mozzarella and topped with Romano cheese) j small $6.39 medium $8.29 largo 9.99 x-largo 11.79 Cheese Lovers’ Pizza (Mozzarella, Cheddar, Ricotta and Romano cheeses melt together to form a cheese lovers’ masterpiece) small $6.39 medium $8.29 large 9.99 x-large 11.79 Deluxe Pizza (Fresh onion, mushroom, green pepper, pepperoni sausage and topped off with a dash of Romano cheese) •matl $6.99 medium W. 99 largt 10.99 x-larg* 12.99 ip* April, June & fall tests are right around the corner. 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Other features of the new park include: ■ Three picnic areas for group dining and cooking, ■ A 150-seat outdoor cafe where fans can eat food and watch the game, ■ Food provided by Domino’s Pizza, Dillard’s Bar-B-Que and the Flying Burrito, ■ A public address system that auto matically adjusts its volume in response to crowd noise, ■ Twelve skyboxes where fans can sit in air-conditioned booths, watch television, eat from a refrigerator and drink from a wetbar. One is still available for rent on a game-by-game basis for between S3OO and S4OO, and ■ A children’s playground and an ar cade. sides on Tuesday. His primary proposal was for a 50-percent tax on the portion of payrolls above S4O million. Owners said they would reluctantly ac cept the mediator’s suggestions for a settle ment, but the union rejected the ideas. At least one lobbyist for the owners has dis tributed the document on Capitol Hill. “It pretty clearly indicates die clubs had no business releasing what they did,” Fehr said. “It was an attempt to spur bargaining. It was an attempt to get people to talk to one another. It wasn’t and never was in tended to be a final recommendation.” f Say p Happy VV Valentines Day - ... with * \ balloons l \ Balloons Express 169 E. Franklin St • Near the Post Office L 933-9999 ■bOfe J* —IP. 8 iicl't gmat CldT meat Napolean Sasketball.Tearo Badromton.lnnertuba Water Basketball. Floor Hockey Tennis.Soccer.Volleyball Turkey Frisbee ** Team RaquetballSports Trivia Contest. 100-Winut© Pentathlon .Arena Soccer Club Sports The UNC Racquetbal) Club hosted the Southeastern Collegiate Regional Touma ment on Saturday, Jan. 28. UNC was im pressive against N.C. State and Georgia Tech on its way to the championship. The tournament doubled as a qualifier for the collegiate nationals, to be held in Nash ville, Tjenn., from March 29 to April 2. The club boasted five first-place finish ers in singles competition: Jason Armbrecht, Catherine Basa, Rebecca Benefiel, Kristi Lanning and Damion Sisca. Basa and Benefiel finished first in doubles competition. UNC plays N.C. State and Virginia Tech Friday through Sunday in Raleigh. The UNC Bowling Club narrowly lost at the Brunswick Northeast Showdown in Tumersville, N.J. UNC lost to top-ranked Indiana by 40 pins and by 20 pins to Florida State (No. 7). The club’s top bowler was Bryan Turner with an average score of 190. The Men’s Soccer Club beatN.C. State 3-1 Sunday at Navy Field. “This was a great win for our club, and I’m just hoping we can use this momentum for a consistent and successful second half of the season,” said club president Neil Harding. The club faces Wake Forest Sun day. The Outing Club and the Sports Coun cil sponsored a speaker, Kristi Larson, from the National Outdoor Leadership School CAA Presidents Explain Why Ticket Distribution Is Random As we find ourselves in the midst of an exciting men’s basketball season, we would like to explain a few points about student ticket distribution. Specifi cally, we hope to clear up the confusion surrounding the Wake Forest/Clemson distribution and explain the revised policy for the Duke distribution. Our initial ticket distribution policy was formed with much student input. Polls, letters and phone calls were all considered in its creation. The overwhelming response indicated that students liked the previous year’s policy but wanted two changes: to have numbers handed out earlier (which we have done) and to see the “6 o’clock rule” enforced. The policy states that stu dents may not line up before 6 p.m. on the evening before a ticket distribution. In pre vious years, students lined up before the set time and were not penalized. Therefore, those who arrived at the proper time risked getting an upper-level seat. At the students’ requests, we resolved to enforce this rule. At the Wake/Clemson distribution, we did indeed enforce the rule. Everyone who arrived early was told to leave the parking lot and return at 6. Unfortunately, by 6 p.m., everyone was waiting across the street, prepared to run to form the line. Additionally, instead of the usual 400 to 500 people who arrive at 6 p.m., there were over 1,300. This was in part because stu dents found out ahead of time that we planned to move the campout inside. Our two main concerns were safety and fair ness. We did not want anyone to get hurt in a stampede; neither did we want certain students to get favorable seats because they were willing to push and shove. We de cided that becaut z each pei;,on had arrived NURSE 'OPORTUNITIES NURSING AT ITS FINEST. 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IM-Rec The Natural High Program has a num ber of upcoming events. Entries opened Monday. Each of the events is scheduled for Saturday. The activities are Pickleball, the K-SWISS Slam Dunk-Less Contest, the K-SWISS 3-Point Shoot Out, Couples’ Challenge and Wallyball. Some partici pants will receive K-SWISS shoes and T shirts. For more information, contact Steve Tribble or Rob Talton at the IM-Rec Office at 203 Woollen Gym, or call 962-1153. The IM ACC Tournament Fantasy Basketball League draft will be held the week of Feb. 27. Stop by or call the IM-Rec Office to sign up. The softball officials clinic for spring 1995 is being offered Monday, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. in 304 Woollen Gym. For more infor mation, call 962-1153. The annual intramural Sweetheart Fun Run will take place Tuesday at 4 p.m. Participants are to meet on the front steps of Wilson Library. COMPILED BY REUBEN SACK NIL DALAL& JEN RASMUSSEN CAA COPRESISDENTS at 6 p.m., each person should have an equal chance of getting a lower-level seat. There was no way that we could have formed a line in an orderly fashion, so we handed out numbers randomly to the crowd and announced that those numbers would not be called in order. Once everyone arrived in the Smith Center, we randomly drew numbers in blocks of 100 to determine the order in which tickets would be given out. Any students who arrived after the initial num ber distribution were automatically placed at the end of the line. We did this as soon as everyone had assembled so that those who risked getting upper-level seats would know ahead of time. We believe we made the right decision under the circumstances; our only concerns were fairness and safety. Having so many students arrive at once was unprecedented for any game but Duke. We are sorry that you were not aware that randomness was a possibility. We do be lieve that randomness is the best solution should a similar situation occur, and we are prepared to do this for the Duke distri bution. If you have comments or sugges tions for a better method, please write us a letter (Tickets, c/o CAA, Box 2, Carolina Union C8#5210) or call us (962-4300). We assure you that we will pass the infor mation on to the next president. Because of this distribution and student opinion surrounding it, we have altered our Duke policy slightly. If you missed the DTH article (2/1), please pick up the policy in our office (Suite A, Student Union). Highlights: Anyone graduating in 1995: 1. Distribution is Saturday at 8 a.m.; don’t be late. 2. The best tickets available will be handed out randomly; no need to camp. 3. Make sure that your anticipated gradua tion date is listed as 1995 with the registrar’s office. Everyone else: 1. You are taking a risk by camping out; the number of tickets available depends on the number left over after the senior distribution. 2. Distribu tion is Sunday at 8 a.m. 3. You may begin camping tonight at 6 p.m. 4. This distribu tion will be as usual, unless more people arrive at 6 tonight than can safely form a line. In that case, we will hand out num bers randomly to those people arriving at 6. We will then randomize and announce number order. Questions? 9624300. Nil Dalai and Jennifer Rasmussen are co presidents of the Carolina Athletic Association.
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