1900
1940
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1951
Duplin Times, September 1, 2011
1958
News & Observer, April 12, 1958
Ronnie Oates, Jr., 13, of Faison, autograph seeker on the left, gets his program ready to obtain an autograph from his baseball idol, Ted Williams with the Boston Red Sox. Ted Williams, Hall of Famer, would become known as “the greatest hitter who ever lived”. The phone at the Oates family home, in Faison. “rang off the hook”, the morning that this picture appeared on the front page of the the Raleigh, News & Observer, Sports Page,
1975
1989
News & Observer, dated March 24, 1989