In The Genes: Ackleys know baseball

Posted Jun 10, 2008

It would be a bit of a stretch to say that had it not been for the kindness and consideration extended some 25 years ago by Bill Slack, then Dustin Ackley wouldn't be tearing the cover off the ball for North Carolina. But Slack, a kind and considerate man who managed the Winston-Salem professional baseball teams for 13 years, did give a catcher named John Ackley a couple of days off during the 1983 Carolina League season to marry a local girl named Joy Wall. (Winston-Salem Journal)

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