Starting in 2019 as a 3-year-old pup, Ripken worked as a retrieval dog in baseball, carrying bats for the Durham Bulls, Holly Springs Salamanders and Savannah Bananas. He retrieved tees for N.C ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- If you went to a Durham Bulls baseball game or NC State football game over the past few years you probably got the chance to see the one and only, Ripken The Bat Dog.

Baseball America’s J.J. Cooper shares his first-ever Hall of Fame ballot for 2025 and explains five key points in his approach to voting. Geoff Pontes & Dylan White dive into their final ...

In fact it was Diamond Dog baseball that made crowd counting a thing. The NCAA only began keeping this score in 1985 when of course the old-old Dudy Noble Field drew 3,894 per home game.