Top Ten Reasons that Minor League Baseball is Better than Major League:

The hotdogs and beer are closer to your seat.
The restrooms after the hotdogs and beer are closer to your seat.
Every seat in the house is a good seat.
The players haven’t been blinded by money yet.
You are watching the best of the best from college [...]

As we get ready for the start of the 2008 season, I just thought I would post a slide show with some of the photographs I shot of the Hickory Crawdads during the 2007 season in Hickory, North Carolina. I’m looking forward to getting started again in a few weeks…
2007 Hickory Crawdads
This slide show contains [...]

I was reading Jake’s recent post that included his top 10 prospects for the upcoming season.  I was surprised to see Olivo Astacio (pictured above) on this list, but it is an interesting concept.  I got to watch this kid pitch almost the entire 2007 season in Hickory before he hit the road to Lynchburg, [...]

Gary Green has been named the manager of the 2008 Hickory Crawdads who are the Low-A affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates based in Hickory, North Carolina.  Gary will return to Hickory for a second season…
On my first post to the new and improved Bucco Blog, I would like to take a moment to introduce myself [...]