He played for Durham, Somerset and Worcestershire, as well as a season ( 1987 – 88 ) in Australia playing for the Queensland Bulls.

Director and screenwriter Ron Shelton's 1988 film Bull Durham, starring Kevin Costner, Tim Robbins, and Susan Sarandon, depicted a fictionalized account of the Durham Bulls, at that time a Carolina League team ( they have since become a Class AAA team in the International League ).

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The ATT begins in the City of Durham across Morehead Avenue from the Durham Bulls Athletic Park.

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Category: Durham Bulls players

It has studios on South Mangum Street / US 15 / US 501 ( along NC 147 / Durham Freeway ) in Downtown Durham adjacent to the Durham Bulls Athletic Park.

WRAZ's main offices and master control eventually relocated to the Diamond View office building in Downtown Durham next door to the Durham Bulls Athletic Park and the American Tobacco complex.

On September 10, 2007, the station added the Retro Television Network ( RTV ) to its second digital subchannel which also aired live Durham Bulls home games.

Buffalo won its first-round playoff, against the Durham Bulls, and advanced to the Governors ' Cup Finals, in which they had home field advantage over the Richmond Braves.

* Durham Bulls, a baseball team in Durham, North Carolina, United States

Huff began 2000 with the Durham Bulls of the triple-A International League.

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Haynes pitched one final season in for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays Triple-A affiliate, the Durham Bulls.

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Category: Durham Bulls players

Symeon of Durham records a battle fought at an unidentified location near Hastings in 771, at which Offa defeated the Haestingas tribe, effectively ending its existence as a separate Kingdom.

Simeon of Durham, a twelfth-century chronicler, records that in 771 Offa defeated " the people of Hastings ", which may record the extension of Offa's dominion over the entire kingdom.

In 1327, the Scots invaded northern England and defeated the English at Stanhope in Weardale in County Durham.

The Battle of Fulford took place at the place identified by Symeon of Durham as the village of Fulford near York in England, on 20 September 1066, when King Harald III of Norway-also known as Harald Hardrada and Tostig Godwinson, his English ally, fought and defeated the Northern Earls Edwin and Morcar.

On August 2, 2011, the Durham Bulls defeated the Charlotte Knights for their 6, 000th win in franchise history.

On the evening of June 17, 1939, the Durham Athletic Park burned to the ground, hours after the Bulls defeated the Portsmouth Cubs 7-3.

On August 2, 2011, the Durham Bulls defeated the Charlotte Knights, the Chicago White Sox affiliate for their 6, 000th win in franchise history with a final score of 18-3.

As the best English and Welsh players were on tour in New Zealand at the time, Great Britain was represented by the Cornwall county team, who were chosen by the RFU as an appropriate side after they defeated Durham in the 1907 English county championship.

Mills was personally defeated in Durham East, finishing a poor second against Progressive Conservative John O ' Toole.

In their regular season finale the Fire defeated the Raleigh – Durham Skyhawks 28 – 7, and clinched a spot in the first WLAF playoffs as the winners of the North American West division with a 5 – 5 record.

This time, they defeated Scranton in the semi-finals but were swept by the Durham Bulls in the finals.

Great Britain was therefore represented by the Cornwall county team, who were chosen by the RFU as an appropriate side after they defeated Durham in the 1907 English county championship.

He retired from politics after being defeated in 1882 and died in 1885 at Durham.

On the evening of May 10, 2010, before a crowd of 3, 911, the-now Class AAA Durham Bulls returned to The DAP for a single regular-season game against the Toledo Mud Hens.

Leon Durham is currently the hitting coach for the Detroit Tigers AAA affiliate the Toledo Mud Hens of the International League.

An outstanding example of the pioneer entrepreneurs who helped create strong communities, Mr. Walker also operated a schooner, Mud Turtle, and was a contractor on the Durham Road as it was cut eastward through the bush from Kincardine.

* 1984 Carolina League Champions, Mets sweep Northern Division and win over Durham 3 – 1.

He lost the Durham West constituency to Liberal Norah Stoner by 5, 843 votes in the 1987 election, amid a Liberal sweep of the province.

Smith's father, Kenneth, was born in Tow Law, County Durham, and worked at a coal mine during the Second World War looking after the pit ponies.

United States president George W. Bush fulfilled his lifetime ambition of visiting a ' genuine British pub ' during his November 2003 state visit to the UK when he had lunch and a pint of non-alcoholic lager with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the Dun Cow pub in Sedgefield, County Durham.

They were popular during the 1960s with their best-known configuration as: Judith Durham on vocals, piano and tambourine ; Athol Guy on double bass and vocals ; Keith Potger on twelve-string guitar, banjo and vocals ; and Bruce Woodley on guitar, mandolin, banjo and vocals.

The Gospels may have been taken from Durham Cathedral during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, ordered by Henry VIII, and were acquired in the early 17th century by Sir Robert Cotton from Thomas Walker, Clerk of the Parliaments.

The clock is a memorial to the airmen operating from bases in Yorkshire, Durham, and Northumberland who were killed in action during World War II.

Two of Lawrence's most famous portraits of children were painted during the 1820s: that of Emily and Laura Calmady and that of Master Charles William Lambton, painted for his father Lord Durham for 600 guineas and known as The Red Boy.

A Union Pacific Local still serves the Durham Elevator during the Kansas summer harvests.

Trinity College was founded in 1555 by Sir Thomas Pope, on land bought following the abolition of Durham College during the period of Protestant Reformation, whose buildings housed the original foundation.

After Innocent pardoned de Gray, the pope recommended his election as Bishop of Durham in 1213 ; but de Gray died during his journey back to England on 18 October 1214, at Saint-Jean-d ' Angély in Poitou.

One of Ranulf's nephews, Ralf, was archdeacon of Northumberland and during the reign of King Stephen helped to hold the diocese of Durham loyal to Stephen.

In 1796 St-Calais ' grave was supposedly found during the demolition of the chapter house at Durham Cathedral.

The miracles worked in Cuthbert's name during the late Anglo-Saxon period were particularly flamboyant, and the Libellus contains engaging accounts of some of these, including the miracle of the three waves ( when Cuthbert turned a portion of the Irish Sea into blood in order to prevent his followers from taking his relics out of England, see Libellus ii. 11 ), the foundation of Durham ( when Cuthbert's body, being moved across England on a cart, refused to be moved, signaling his desire to remain at Durham, see Libellus iii. 1 ), and several picturesque deaths visited upon the enemies of Cuthbert's devotees.

Municipal boundaries were not changed during the 1974 formation of Durham Region and remain to this day.

Durham Wildlife Trust ( with RSPB assistance ) set up a wardening post during the period when the birds were nesting.

More obvious folk etymologies include the story that the coffin of St Cuthbert was dropped near Pity Me on the way to Durham, at which point the saint implored the monks carrying him to take pity on him and be more careful ; or that coming to the location during a flight from a Viking raid, a group of monks sang the 51st Psalm, the Latin version of which includes the words " Miserere mei, Deus ", which may be rendered in English as " Pity me, O God ".

Although she does not specifically label the document as a gazetteer, Penelope Wilson ( PhD, Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at Durham University ) describes an ancient Egyptian papyrus found at the site of Tanis, Egypt ( a city founded during the Twentieth dynasty of Egypt ) which provides the following for each administrative area of Egypt at the time:

Blind Boy Fuller ( b. Fulton Allen, Wadesboro, NC, July, 1907 ) was a popular Piedmont blues guitarist, who played for tips outside tobacco warehouses in Durham during the 1930s.

Stockton became the major port for County Durham, the North Riding of Yorkshire and Westmorland during this period, exporting mainly rope made in the town, agricultural produce and lead from the Yorkshire Dales.

According to Reginald of Durham ( d. c 1190 ) " anyone approaching it should wash, fast and dress in an alb before touching it ", and he recorded that a scribe called John who failed to do this during a visit by the Archbishop of York in 1153 – 54, and " held it with unwashed hands after eating was struck down with a chill ".

The rich mining history of the town was highlighted in the 2000 blockbuster film Billy Elliot which was set during the UK miners ' strike ( 1984-1985 ) in the fictional County Durham town of ' Everington ', but which displayed characteristics particular to East Durham pit communities such as Seaham and Easington Colliery – both towns feature as locations in the film, notably Dawdon Miners ' Club, into which Billy's dad runs when he learns his son has won an audition at dance school.

The team enjoyed great success together with local rivals Durham Wasps at a national level during the 1980s and early 1990s.

Troops under command of William Douglas stumbled upon them in the morning mist during a raid south of Durham.

Middleton was born to John Middleton, 1st Earl of Middleton and Grizel Durham in 1649 or 1650, and spent time in both Scotland and London during his youth.