Wayback Wednesday: NC’s Home-Run Derby of 1961
If you wanted to see major league baseball players hit home runs in 1961, you didn’t have to leave Winston-Salem; you just had to travel to Ernie Shore Field. Following a exciting home run...
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Forsyth Woman Magazine – August 2016
Be sure to pick up the August 2016 issue of Forsyth Woman Magazine. The Winston-Salem Time Traveler feature for August (page 76) is “Take Me Out to the Ballgame!” Read all about some of...
August 28,1960: First N.C.Baseball Game Telecast
On this day in 1960, the first live telecast of a professional baseball game in North Carolina took place at Ernie Shore Field. The premier telecast featured the Winston-Salem Redbirds and the Greensboro Yankees....
March 24: Happy Birthday! Ernest Grady Shore
Ernest Grady Shore, or “Ernie, was born at Shore in Yadkin County in 1891. His ancestors in Yadkin County were farmers. Ernie attended school in Yadkin County, then went to Guildford College where he...
February 11, 1956: Ernie Shore Field Named
The new baseball field on the corner of Shorefair Drive and Thirtieth Street was named in honor of Ernie Shore, former Forsyth County Sheriff and Boston Red Sox pitcher. The first baseball game was...