Twenty-seven years ago, the Red Sox slugger climbed out of the dugout and into the stands at Fenway Park to help get an injured boy the urgent medical care he needed. Rice’s quick actions saved the 4-year-old boy’s life, his family and doctors believe, and belied the surly persona that kept Rice waiting for the call from Cooperstown for 15 years.
Turns out the boy hit by the foul ball was alumnus Jonathan Keane ’00.
NC State will receive $5.9 million from the U.S. Department of Energy for nuclear-energy research. . . . Two more NC State students have been diagnosed with H1N1. . . . The Wilmington Star-Newscatches up with Russell Wilson, who’s playing baseball this summer for the Gaston Grizzlies. . . . State law enforcement agencies hold terrorism training exercise on campus. . . . Gov. Beverly Perdue appoints Randall C. “Randy” Ramsey, founder of Jarrett Bay Yacht Sales, and reappoints E. Norris Tolson ’62, president and CEO of the N.C. Biotechnology Center, to the NC State Board of Trustees.
05.20.2009 | by Chris Richter | Filed under Sports | Comments: No responses |
NC State alumni and fans in the Charlotte area can see two-sport star Russell Wilson in action on the baseball diamond this summer. The ACC’s 2008 Freshman of the Year and the first freshman quarterback in conference history to be named first team All-ACC will play this summer for the Gastonia Grizzlies of the Coastal Plain League. Wilson, who was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles after his senior year of high school, played second base for the Wolfpack this spring. The Coastal Plain League is a collegiate summer league with teams in Virginia, South Carolina and nine North Carolina cities and towns, including Fayetteville, Asheboro, Wilson and Wilmington.
(Photograph courtesy of NC State Athletics)
Update:The News & Observerran a nice photograph of Russell Wilson on May 20 as part of its “Acts of Faith” series.
The Wolfpack baseball team during a game in 1945. The beams of an under construction Reynolds Coliseum loom large in the background. The Coliseum parking deck now stands where the field was. (Photograph courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
NC State alumni and fans in the Charlotte area can see two-sport star 
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