BlueRidgeNow.com – By Dean Hensley, Thursday 18 July 2013
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Every baseball stadium has a story. Asheville’s historic McCormick Field has many.
Built in 1924, it’s one of the oldest minor-league ballparks still in use; its right-field wall is the second-highest wall in all of professional baseball; it was once a race-car track, and it was where Crash Davis hit his final home run in the movie “Bull Durham.”
Now it has yet another story: It is one of 20 finalists for the Best Minor League Ballparks category in the 2013 10Best Readers’ Choice Travel Award, according to The USA Today Travel Media Group.
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