I don’t remember that much about the interview, other than it mostly sucked. Ted gave me the green light, so I drove to Raleigh (about an hour away) and waited my turn to sit with Cabrera on bar stools at a high-top table. I was dying to go, so I made a deal with sports editor Ted Newman: Let me go talk to Cabrera and I’d promise to get back to Rocky Mount in time to cover the city’s 8-year-old girls softball championship game that night. Since Cabrera was starting to get attention, the team scheduled a media event at the North Raleigh Hilton’s Skybox Grill. Cabrera had already been labeled as a future star, and there was talk the Marlins might call him straight up from Double-A to the big leagues later that year.
THE ROCKY MOUNT TELEGRAM FULL
It certainly didn’t hurt knowing the Mudcats were full of big-time Florida Marlins prospects in 2003 - and I was covering them about once a week.Ĭabrera, an unbelievably talented 20-year-old, was the team’s top prospect along with pitcher Dontrelle Willis. So the Double-A Carolina Mudcats, located in nearby Zebulon, seemed like a really huge deal to my 22-year-old self. I was all about baseball at the time (I’d just finished a spring training internship for the Philadelphia Phillies) and I dreamed of traveling the country covering ballgames. The Telegram was my first full-time newspaper job, and I viewed living in rural eastern North Carolina as a training ground for what I hoped would be my eventual gig as a Major League Baseball writer. After about 20 minutes of sifting through old stories about high school sports and college basketball, I found it: Cabrera waiting for the call from June 4, 2003. It wasn’t the kind of treasure any of Cabrera’s millions could buy (though I certainly wouldn’t mind that), but just an old copy of the Rocky Mount (N.C.) Telegram stuck between the fading stacks of newspapers in my garage. Peter Chan, the bus company manager, said in a brief phone interview Monday that he was “very sorry to hear about the accident” but had no further information because he hadn’t been able to talk to the driver, who was injured in the crash and remains hospitalized.This week’s news that baseball megastar Miguel Cabrera signed a record $292 million contract extension with the Detroit Tigers sent me on a treasure hunt of sorts. Trooper Megan Frazer said Monday morning that more details about the wreck might not be released by police until Tuesday.
THE ROCKY MOUNT TELEGRAM DRIVER
The name of the bus driver has not been released. The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Community Osteopathic treated 21 patients, treating and releasing 20 of them one adult remained hospitalized, the medical center said.Ī Red Cross-run reception center at a nearby fire company closed late Monday after helping 23 adults and two children, feeding them and offering emotional support.Ī Dauphin County spokesperson said information about the people who died was not immediately available through the coroner’s office. Three others were being evaluated and 22 were discharged. Three were admitted, one in critical condition. Hershey Medical Center spokesperson said it helped 28 patients from the crash, ages 1 to 69.
“I’m shaking,” he told the newspaper on Monday, about 10 hours after the crash.
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