Everything
I have come to know as true must now be questioned, for I have been to
the new Nat Bailey Stadium, and my world has duly been rocked.
The
Nat Bailey Stadium I remember was nothing like The Nat of today. The
old Nat was vanilla. It was crusty stucco and blue-painted wood. It was
corners cut, maintenance-free, and rinky [...]

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I posted a few days ago that I hoped the old Nat Bailey scoreboard would be restored and maintained in the new outfield wall as stadium upgrades take place… Alas, that ain’t to be.
Today, Bob Mackin of the Vancouver free daily rag, 24 Hours, found a gap in their usual wall-to-wall Nicole Ritchie coverage to [...]

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Thanks to an interested reader who would like to remain unnamed (let’s call him Sammy Hagar), we have finally got a series of good pictures of the long-awaited outfield wall redevelopment happening at Nat Bailey Stadium in preparation for the 2007 NWL season.
The first change that you might note when passing by Ontario and 32nd [...]

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In olden times, I would have to poke around Nat Bailey Stadium like a prowler to get inside information on goings on. I’d have to overhear things in the stands, or buy beer for an underage intern, or install listening devices in the urinals to get any tidbit of info that wasn’t in a press [...]

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Every now and then I like to leave the confines of the press box and
wander Nat Bailey Stadium in search of picture opportunities.
The trusty 4.0 megapixel Olympus, which sucks ass by the way, does the
job pretty well when the light is good (and terribly once the sun goes down), so here is my
collection of the [...]

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 As the C’s roll down to Tri-City for a road series that (for some reason) won’t be webcast either by the Canadians OR by Tri-City, I figured it might be worth slapping up some things to fill the void left by actual game reports.
These pics were snapped yesterday at Nat Bailey Stadium, on perhaps the [...]

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