Posts tagged ‘Spinners’

July 19th, 2010

Len Berman on the Lowell Spinners

by DickH

Several weeks ago I wrote of my rediscovery of TV sportscaster Len Berman who did sports on WBZ-TV in Boston during the 1970s and who now has launched an internet career after many decades doing TV sports in New York City. Berman’s website invites you to sign up for his daily email that gives you his “top 5″ events of the prior day. I usually don’t like these kind of daily email blasts – they tend to become overwhelming – but Berman’s are just the right length to make a quick, informative, often witty read.

Anyway, in one of his top 5 for today, he had this to say about our own Lowell Spinners:

Congratulations to the minor league Lowell Spinners. Saturday night they set the all time record for people popping bubble wrap, 3,692. It was the 50th anniversary of the invention of bubble wrap. The team adds this coveted mark to its collection which includes the record for the largest game of “Duck, Duck, Goose.” The Lowell Spinners are dead last in the New York-Penn League standings, but who has time to notice?

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June 26th, 2010

Spinners, Scalping and Scott Brown

by DickH

In a post on his “Talking Politics” blog on the Boston Phoenix website, David Bernstein suggests that the Scott Brown campaign may be violating the state’s anti-scalping law with an August 30 fund raiser at Lowell’s own Lelacheur Park. That night’s Spinners’ game features “Scott Brown bobblehead” night and Brown’s daughter Ayla will sing the National Anthem. The bobbleheads are being purchased by Zoll Medical of Chelmsford as a reward for Brown’s opposition to health care reform on the grounds that the new tax on medical devices would harm Zoll.

Brown is now selling tickets to the game for $75 (which includes a bobblehead and food from The Gator Pit). Bernstein contends that since Spinners tickets are only about $10 apiece, Brown’s markup may violate the state’s anti-scalping law. The reporters query on the legality of this event has thus far gone unanswered by Attorney General Martha Coakley’s office.

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