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The Mysterious and Unbelievable Case of the Batboy and the Hot Dogs

Author: Josh Durham and Ashley Pace

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Best friends Josh Durham and Ashley Pace worked for a rookie league baseball team in Burlington, North Carolina in the summer of 1990. Josh had just graduated high school, and Ashley was a rising senior. They were some of the greatest jobs the two have ever had, but for the last thirty years they've been haunted by this question: Did Ashley, the team's batboy, cost one player his professional baseball career by getting food for him before a game?

In this podcast, the two best friends take a trip down memory lane with players and staff from that great Burlington team. And great is an understatement. Estimates show that only one minor-leaguer out of ten will make it to the majors. For the ballplayers arriving in Burlington that summer, that means three of them might make it. From the 1990 Burlington Indians, though, seven did. You'll definitely recognize some of them.

The Mysterious and Unbelievable Case of the Batboy and the Hot Dogs is full of all the things that you've always loved about the minor leagues. In the investigative style of all the great true-crime podcasts, but with all the hijinks of a movie like Bull Durham, it's also a way for Josh and Ashley to finally answer that decades-old question. Was it really the batboy, in the dugout corridor, with the hot dogs?

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In our first bonus episode, we give listeners an important update about baseball in Burlington, along with all the silliness they've come to expect!
In Episode 7, we fill you in on what the years after 1990 had in store for so many of the players and staff we've talked about in our podcast. And we'll fill you in on a few more details about Frank Monastero.
In this episode, we hear whether Frank Monastero holds Ashley Pace responsible for how his professional baseball career finished up.
In Episode 5, we talk with Frank Monastero about the great hot dog incident of 1990.
It's a rough summer for Minor League Baseball, that's for sure. We talk contraction in this episode, COVID-19, and the future of Burlington baseball.
As the season progresses, hijinks abound. And Ashley Pace reveals, for the first time in thirty years, how we tried to exonerate Frank Monastero.
As the season starts, Ashley Pace starts finding trouble both on and off the field. The Burlington Indians find trouble off the field as well.
Did Ashley Pace cost one ballplayer his professional baseball career? We introduce you to the scene of the crime, the accused, and the manager who served as judge and jury.
In this trailer for our new series, we introduce ourselves and the 1990 Burlington Indians, as well as the mystery that has haunted us for thirty years.
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