Carolina Mudcats (great name) team bus flips after Salem Red Sox game

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WenZink

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Lose Remerswaal said:
http://www.wect.com/story/29038861/bus-carrying-carolina-mudcats-team-flips-in-columbus-county
 
Team was heading to Myrtle Beach for today's (now canceled) game.  Thankfully, only 8 injuries and all already released from the hospital
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What a potential horror show.  So grateful to see that the injuries were minimal, although you still wonder how even minor injuries might affect the roster.
 
And I admit that I came to your post because of my memory of Jim "Mudcat" Grant, a former pitcher from the 60s who always seemed to beat the Red Sox, albeit with some great run support from the slugging Minnesota Twins teams from that era.  In his only 20 win season, 1965, he went 5-0 (with 1 no-decision) against the Sox, helped by 54 runs of accumulated run-support.  As a kid, watching him vs the Sox,  I thought he was one of the greatest ever, but he may have been just one of the luckiest.
 
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The Last DiMaggio said:
Agree this could have been really bad. Thankfully, it wasn't.

Mudcat wrote a book: The Black Aces: Baseball's only African-American Twenty-game winners (13 at the time of writing in 2007). I met him in Cooperstown -- a super nice guy.
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I'll be sure to search for a copy.. thanks.
 
Also giving thought to who the 12 other African American "Aces."  And we come back to what defines the term "African American?"
 
Fake Edit:  Okay, looked them up, and now I can't figure out why Fergie Jenkins is included, since he was born in Canada.  I guess I just learned that African American is short for African (north) American?
 
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WenZink said:
 
What a potential horror show.  So grateful to see that the injuries were minimal, although you still wonder how even minor injuries might affect the roster.
 
And I admit that I came to your post because of my memory of Jim "Mudcat" Grant, a former pitcher from the 60s who always seemed to beat the Red Sox, albeit with some great run support from the slugging Minnesota Twins teams from that era.  In his only 20 win season, 1965, he went 5-0 (with 1 no-decision) against the Sox, helped by 54 runs of accumulated run-support.  As a kid, watching him vs the Sox,  I thought he was one of the greatest ever, but he may have been just one of the luckiest.
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The 1965 Twins were 17-1 against the 100 loss Red Sox that year. The no decision game was won by Jim Perry who beat the Red Sox five times as well fifty years ago.
 
luckysox

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This thread serves to remind us how bad things could really be: the Sox have not flipped over in a bus, or crashed in a plane, etc., and they also don't look like 100 game losers who can't beat the twins.  So, perspective.
 
Glad all the kids on the bus are ok - I saw the story earlier and my heart skipped until I saw that everyone was ok. Amazing that a bus rolled, there are no seat belts, and no one freaking died.  God looked down on the Mudcats.
 
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The Mudcats were one of the first teams in the early 1990's to take advantage of the resurgence of interest in minor league baseball following the release of Bull Durham and establish their own brand identity.  They heavily advertised team merchandise in Baseball America - they were one of the few non-Sox affiliates I bought a cap and t-shirt from because that logo is so cool.
 
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JimD said:
The Mudcats were one of the first teams in the early 1990's to take advantage of the resurgence of interest in minor league baseball following the release of Bull Durham and establish their own brand identity.  They heavily advertised team merchandise in Baseball America - they were one of the few non-Sox affiliates I bought a cap and t-shirt from because that logo is so cool.
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The one and only piece of mL merch I ever owned.
 
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