Top 10 stories of 2019: Minor league baseball makes triumphant return
When an out-of-town developer pitched a proposal to local officials to build a minor league baseball stadium downtown in the summer of 2014, the idea seemed like a pipe dream.Fayetteville had, after all, been in the game before as home to a minor league franchise from 1987 to 2000. But that endeavor ended when several efforts to fund a new stadium were rebuffed. The owners finally decided to sell the franchise, which was then relocated to another city.Against long odds, […]
