Faces in the Crowd: Meet ‘The Girl Who Knits’ in the Hog Pen at Arkansas baseball games
FAYETTEVILLE — When the Arkansas baseball team scores a run, countless fans sitting in the Hog Pen in left field at Baum-Walker Stadium raise flags in the air. There are all kinds of flags, all of varying heights and sizes, some with custom designs and others with classic logos.
One in particular, almost always in the same spot up against the fence above the corner of the visitor’s bullpen, stands out. Only it isn’t a flag at all.
It’s a long, rectangular banner made of yarn, hand-knit by Razorback fan Christina Barnes. It reads “Woo Pig” on one side and “Hogs” on the other.
Barnes made it years ago. When she arrives at every game, almost always in her “lucky spot” above the bullpen, she uses two carabiners on either end of the banner to clip it onto the fence in front of her seat.
