DeCock: Requiem for a Pirates fan

Posted Sep 29, 2012
It could have happened to anyone, any fan, at any time. It just happened to be Kay Stallings sitting in that seat. Stallings didn’t have to stick around after East Carolina was eliminated from the NCAA baseball tournament, but it was a lovely June afternoon at North Carolina’s Boshamer Stadium, and he wasn’t the only member of the purple-clad crowd to stay behind and watch the Tar Heels play St. John’s that Sunday. (Raleigh News & Observer)

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