Lucas: A Baseball Town

Posted Jun 8, 2025
They arrived early Friday. With a noon game, the first fans were in line before 8 a.m. They brought lawn chairs and breakfasts and laptops to pretend to be in the office. These were the essentials for a day of waiting in line for standing room only tickets to the super regional matching UNC vs. Arizona. Maybe that is when Chapel Hill became a baseball town. (GoHeels.com)

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