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Walter Fenner “Buck” Leonard was an American first baseman in Negro league baseball and in the Mexican League. After growing up in North Carolina, he played for the Homestead Grays between 1934 and 1950, batting fourth behind Josh Gibson for many years. The Grays teams of the 1930s and 1940s were considered some of the best teams in Negro league history.
The 1937 Kannapolis Towelers. Courtesy of the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library.Keith Price does not wear academic robes — a 1954 graduate of what was then called Wake Forest College, he was in a variety of business ventures through his long working life — but if Forest City in Rutherford County had a historian-in-residence, Price would be it.
Pioneer NASCAR dirt track. Built 1946; paved in 1958. Hosted sanctioned events, 1949-96. 5/8 mile oval 3 mi. W.
"Strictly Stock" race, June 19, 1949, launched NASCAR sanctioned series. 3/4-mile dirt track was 200 yds. W.
Hit his first home run in professional baseball, March, 1914. 135 yds. N.W. In this town George Herman Ruth acquired the nickname "Babe."