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games.McNair Field to Host Gardner-Webb, WCU, and Wofford
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12-24-2010 Amenities at McNair Field include a beer garden down the right-field line, a popular feature in the summer-collegiate

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, as well as concession stands down the foul lines, a scoreboard complete with one of the CPL's only videoboards, which measures 8'10" by 15', minor league-style dugouts and bullpens, and a state-of-the-art lighting system. It is named for Robert McNair, a Forest City native and founder of the

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