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Jerry Carter: Man with the plan

Jerry Carter doesn’t need much more than the idea. He will make it happen – it being whatever he sets his mind to. “I’ve got this great idea that I’ve had in my hip pocket for a while,” said Carter, the former owner of the Waynesboro Generals Valley League baseball team, now working feverishly on [...]

Posted October 13, 2011  

A new day for the Waynesboro Generals

Critzer, Gauldin step forward to save Valley League team Story by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net The uncertain future of the Waynesboro Generals was a hot topic of conversation for a lot of baseball fans in and around Waynesboro the past several weeks. Among those talking around the proverbial hot stove were a pair of Waynesboro-based businessmen [...]

Posted January 20, 2010  

There’s always next year

I was still trying to be hopeful Sunday night after the loss to the Covington Lumberbacks that put our Waynesboro Generals team on the brink of elimination from the 2009 Valley League playoff race. Team owner Jerry Carter, out of character, for those who know him, was the realist among us. “We’re still in this,” [...]

Posted July 28, 2009  

Retired General

He didn’t have to say much more. “My priority is my wife,” Jim Critzer told me when I asked him about his decision to sell the Waynesboro Generals, which he had almost singlehandedly saved from oblivion a decade ago, back when it looked like the Valley League original might be moved out of town.

Posted January 23, 2009