COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — Baseball is about family and spending time at the ballpark. One local mother and son who will be coming home to Synovus Park when the Clingstones take the field.
Debbie Miller and her son, Pete Ciccarello, have spent nearly four decades going to ballgames in Columbus and most recently in Atlanta. This inaugural Columbus Clingstones season is a full circle moment for the Columbus mother and her Phenix City son.
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Since Truist Park in Atlanta opened, Debbie Miller and her son, Pete Ciccarello, have had season tickets to Atlanta Braves games.
“As the mother of three daughters and one son, I needed something special to do with my son,” Miller said. “Baseball became it. We started watching the Braves on TV, and then started going to the games. And became season ticket holders.”
This season they are trading tickets to the show for life down on the farm, watching baby Braves with Big League dreams.
They were in the fourth deck behind home plate in Atlanta 60 or 70 nights a year. Starting tonight, they will be much closer to the action.
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“Similar to the seats we had at Truist, just lower and closer,” Ciccarello. “Great view. This is going to be a great seat for the season.”
Synovus Park has been transformed over the last year with $50 million in taxpayer investment. And they admit this is no longer the Golden Park of yesteryear.
“We used to come to Golden Park when the kids were really little and watch the Mudcats and RedStixx,” Miller said. “That was out Saturday fun for me and the kids.”
While the drives to Atlanta were a bonding experience. They don’t have to worry about that anymore. And it did not take them long to make the decision to trade the Braves for the ‘Stones.
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“As soon as we heard the announcement of the Clingstones, we became Clingstones,” Miller said.
“I am just thankful Columbus has brought baseball back. Our families need something to do here,” Ciccarello said.
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