The Durham Bulls

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Durham Bulls Athletic Park, a $16-million brick project that first opened in 1995, was expanded to 10,000 seats for the 1998 season.

Not since Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio has baseball been sexier than when Kevin Costner, Tim Robbins, and Susan Sarandon elevated Durham’s minor league baseball team to national fame in the 1988 romantic comedy “Bull Durham.” Today, the Triple-A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays continues to entice Triangle baseball fans at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park with the entertaining antics of mascot Wool E. Bull and a legacy of darn fine baseball, built by such baseball greats as Joe Morgan and David Justice.

409 Blackwell St., Durham, 919-687-6500, www.durhambulls.com