Bill Kirby Jr.: Don Koonce was a devoted husband and father, and an athlete to remember
Pensively, Don Koonce stood along Legion Road on that winter afternoon of 1987 and watched with emotion as the bulldozers cranked and the first tree of many would fall for what would become J.P. Riddle Stadium.There was a tear in his eye.“I wish my father could be here to see this,” he would say on the January day when land would be cleared for the revival of minor league baseball – a dream Koonce brought to this city as a co-owner of the Fayetteville […]
