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Byrd, an in-state product from Laurinburg, walked to the plate in the eighth inning to a loud ovation from the home crowd.

He graduated from the Laurinburg Institute, a historically Black prep school in North Carolina that Dizzy Gillespie had attended in the 1930s.

So she took an assignment at the same hospital where she started her nursing career, Scotland Memorial in Laurinburg.

After being laid off in Red Springs, he next took an auto repair job at a Chevrolet place in Laurinburg.

Born in Laurinburg, North Carolina, in 1944, and raised in Newark, New Jersey, Shaw was one of jazz music’s most influential trumpeters thanks to his technical and harmonic conventions.