Albert Belle

June 17, 2025

Baseball returns to Kinston

September 27, 2024 Shawn Krest

Welcome back, baseball. Kinston barely had a chance to miss you this time around. Nine days after the Down East Wood Ducks played their last game in historic Grainger Stadium, Kinston’s baseball movers and shakers […]

New owners plan to move Down East Wood Ducks out of Kinston

June 1, 2023 Shawn Krest

On April 8, 1949, Grainger High School beat Tarboro High 5-4 in the first baseball game held at Kinston’s Grainger Stadium. Several teams have called the historic building home over the past seven-plus decades, and […]