Atlantic Coast Region notes: Culpeper paper uncovers real life story of Negro League star Jan. 27, 2010
The Culpeper (Va.) Star-Exponent’s sports staff recently completed a project on a former Negro League player named Pete Hill.
Hill is a baseball Hall of Famer who was born in Culpeper County. The staff did extensive research for the project, proving some of the information on Hill’s plaque in Cooperstown incorrect, including his date of birth and hometown.
Sports Editor Shane Mettlen said he hopes the Hall of Fame will make corrections to Hill’s plaque based on the newspapers’ findings. The discoveries mean that there are five Hall-of-Famers from Virginia, two of them from Culpeper county and three born within 15 miles of the Star-Exponent office.
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Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer
The Observer had three reporters recognized with awards in the most recent North Carolina Press Association contest. Dan Wiederer won first place in the sports columns category. Sammy Batten and Paul Shugar combined to win a second-place award in the sports news reporting category for a series of stories about the firing of a local college women’s basketball coach because of cursing. Fayetteville was in the F category, which included the biggest papers in North Carolina.
