Season Opener for Kannapolis Baseball Team sells out
Poor lady. This is a really strange story but if you love baseball, you might already know about it. On August 17th, 1957 baseball player Richie Ashburn fouls and then hit a fan by the name of Alice Roth twice in the same game! He hit her once while at bat playing for the Philadelphia Phillies and then once while she was on the stretcher. The 1st hit broke her nose and the 2nd one...well just hit her. That's some terrible luck.
The Kannapolis Cannon Ballers played their opening night game this past Friday April 8 which marked the first game at Atrium Health Ballpark in over 200 days. The general manager of the ball club said that seats were sold out for the game before Friday with nearly 5,000 fans in the stands.
“You know, the ballpark’s been the anchor tenant of downtown Kannapolis,” Cannon Ballers general manager Matt Millward said. “It just always had that hometown feel to it, but when Cannon Mills closed up, the city realized we needed to do something to revitalize this town.”
He pointed out that the growth around the new stadium is breathing life into the city. Sites such as apartments, restaurants, and retail and office space have already gone up around the ballpark.
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