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It was the spring of 1993, and baseball scouts were flocking to Southwest Virginia to see Billy Wagner, a hard-throwing lefty pitcher for Ferrum College.
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Long-time Ruckersville resident Tom Dulaney Slonaker has had a plethora of successful careers, including sports broadcaster, financial engineer, stockbroker, and as an insurance agent he had an office in Charlottesville.
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It has been more than three years since Jimmy Jackson was the pitching coach for the JMU Baseball team.
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The Barter Theater – which opened in 1933 under founder Robert Porterfield – remains the longest-running professional equity theater in the United States.
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The Cleveland Guardians outfield has been in flux of late, due in part to injuries – including one to former JMU star Chase DeLauter.
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Virginia has one chance to critically assess NextEra Energy’s proposed acquisition of Dominion Energy.
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Tori Jankoska ended her college basketball career as the all-time leading scorer at Michigan State and was taken in the first round of the WNBA Draft by Chicago.
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Dominion Energy and Florida-based NextEra Energy plan to merge to form the largest utility in the U.S. Clean Virginia, a nonprofit advocacy organization, urges extreme caution that this mega-merger does not put corporate profits ahead of customers.
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After two years on the baseball team at Charlottesville High School, Dom Cafferillo transferred to the Miller School. Not only did Cafferillo get to face better competition, but he was able to play for a coach that was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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As a hitting coach in the minor leagues with the Pittsburgh Pirates farm system, Gregg Ritchie got to first work in 2005 with future All-Star outfielder Andrew McCutchen.
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