[SuperJon]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/b ... romotions/

[TDDance234]

4. Pre-planned Funeral Night, Aug. 16, 2003
The Hagerstown Suns gave away a full pre-paid funeral valued at $6,500 to one (un)lucky fan. The package included embalming, a casket and funeral home use, as well as a death certificate. Two-thousand fans entered the contest.

That's just wrong.

[Fumblerooskies]

I bet people were just dying to get in.

[Libertine]

I remember hearing about Nobody Night. The youth group from my parents' church was there for that one. Or not there, as the case may be.

[Fumblerooskies]

4. Pre-planned Funeral Night, Aug. 16, 2003
The Hagerstown Suns gave away a full pre-paid funeral valued at $6,500 to one (un)lucky fan. The package included embalming, a casket and funeral home use, as well as a death certificate. Two-thousand fans entered the contest.

I bet they were buried in applications.

[Cider Jim]

At least 2 of those promotions mention the Charleston club in West Virginia. When I was in college, I took my dad there to Walt Powell Park to see what was then called the "San Diego Chicken" on one of their promotion nights.

[Libertine]

Uh, Jim. The Charleston River Dogs are in South Carolina.

[Hold My Own]

we've had the Chicken here in Lynchburg a ton of times....i was the little chicklet for a few

[Sly Fox]

The Charleston team Jim is referencing was the Charleston Charlies and they were the Triple-A affiliate of the Pirates back in the era he was referencing if my memory serves me correct.

[Cider Jim]

Correct, Sly. That's where I saw Dave Parker play in AAA, but the references in the article may very well be to the ballpark in Charleston, SC (not WV). I don't know what the team in Charleston, WV is called anymore, but I know it dropped from AAA to single A.

[pbow]

The team in Charleston now is the Power (I hate the new name.) They just built a new ballpark downtown which is very very nice, and from what I understand one of the nicer parks in Single A baseball. They are currently 21-7 and first place in their division in the South Atlantic League.

[Cider Jim]

Thanks, PB. I'll have to take my dad to a game there this summer.

[pbow]

You really should it's a really nice minor league baseball experience, and the new ballpark is a lot nicer than some of the minor league stadiums i've been to in Florida where they do the grapefruit league games.

[HenryGale]

To piggyback on the casket promo:

[ATrain]

If only the Hillcats could be that creative on any of them...I especially liked the "HEY BEER MAN" signs