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June 29, 2025

Rick Ferrell

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Martin County legend Gaylord Perry remembered

December 7, 2022 Shawn Krest

According to family lore, Evan Perry turned down the chance to play minor league baseball because his family needed him to help work on their farm. He eventually inherited the 25-acre tobacco, corn and peanut […]

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Picking NC’s all-time baseball All-Stars

July 18, 2018 Brett Friedlander

The best players in baseball gathered in Washington on Tuesday for the 89th Major League All-Star Game. None of them, however, are from North Carolina. It’s an anomaly that belies the quality of baseball that […]

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