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July 3, 2025

Segra Stadium

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Woodpeckers tapping into Fayetteville’s baseball potential

June 22, 2022 Brett Friedlander

FAYETTEVILLE — On March 7, 1914, a raw rookie by the name of George Herman Ruth hit his first professional home run in Fayetteville while playing in a spring exhibition game for the then-minor league Baltimore […]

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Woodpeckers, drilled by pandemic, return

May 19, 2021 Brett Friedlander

FAYETTEVILLE — A cheer went up when the gates to Segra Stadium opened about an hour before the Fayetteville Woodpeckers took on the Kannapolis Cannon Ballers in their first home game in more than a […]

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Different kind of birdies at Woodpeckers’ ‘nest’

October 14, 2020 Brett Friedlander

Segra Stadium in Fayetteville is the home of a minor league baseball team known as the Woodpeckers. This weekend, a different flock of birdies will be flying around the grounds of the two-year-old ballpark. “The […]

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Baseball back in Fayetteville with new stadium, Woodpeckers

April 24, 2019 Brett Friedlander

FAYETTEVILLE — Back in 1996, an architect named Robert Marvin was hired to devise a revitalization plan for Fayetteville’s decaying downtown area. The centerpiece of his design was a controversial 60-foot high mound to be […]

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