With summer heating up, Burlington Sock Puppets General Manager Anderson Rathbun joins 97.9 The Hill’s Brighton McConnell. He shares some of the team’s early success this season, as well as how the team is finding ways to connect to not only the Alamance County community, but baseball fans across the country.
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