Hickory

L.P. Frans Stadium is a stadium in Hickory, North Carolina. It is primarily used for baseball, and is the home field of the Hickory Crawdads minor... league baseball team. The Catawba Valley Stars of the collegiate summer Great South League also utilize the stadium. It was built in 1993. It holds 5,062 people. The ballpark is located three miles from I-40 in Winkler Park, L.P. Frans Stadium was built on donated land in 1993 and named after the local Pepsi-Cola bottler who partially funded the stadium’s construction.
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Jon Reep is an American stand-up comedian and actor, known as the "That thing got a Hemi?" guy in Dodge commercials, and more recently as the winner... of the fifth season of Last Comic Standing on NBC. Reep was born and raised in Hickory, North Carolina. He has one younger brother, Jason. Their father David, worked as the manager of a Goodyear store, and a part time police officer. Their mother was a receptionist at the local telephone company. Reep was raised as a Baptist. Reep attended Fred T. Foard in Newton, North Carolina and played football. After graduating high school, Reep began attending Catawba Valley Community College, while working at his father's Goodyear store. In 1992, Reep transferred to North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, and graduated in 1996 with a BA degree in theatre, mass communication, and public and interpersonal communication. After graduation, Reep landed a job as a production assistant with UNC-TV. In 1995, Reep was at a Carolina Panthers inaugural football game in Clemson, South Carolina when the Panthers mascot, Sir Purr, called him to the field.
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Jon Reep is an American stand-up comedian and actor, known as the "That thing got a Hemi?" guy in Dodge commercials, and more recently as the winner... of the fifth season of Last Comic Standing on NBC. Reep was born and raised in Hickory, North Carolina. He has one younger brother, Jason. Their father David, worked as the manager of a Goodyear store, and a part time police officer. Their mother was a receptionist at the local telephone company. Reep was raised as a Baptist. Reep attended Fred T. Foard in Newton, North Carolina and played football. After graduating high school, Reep began attending Catawba Valley Community College, while working at his father's Goodyear store. In 1992, Reep transferred to North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, and graduated in 1996 with a BA degree in theatre, mass communication, and public and interpersonal communication. After graduation, Reep landed a job as a production assistant with UNC-TV. In 1995, Reep was at a Carolina Panthers inaugural football game in Clemson, South Carolina when the Panthers mascot, Sir Purr, called him to the field.
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North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina is the 28th most extensive and the 10th most populous of the 50 United States. North Carolina comprises 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte. In the past five decades, North Carolina's economy has undergone a transition from... heavy reliance upon tobacco and furniture making to a more diversified economy with engineering, biotechnology, and finance sectors. North Carolina has a wide range of elevations, from sea level on the coast to 6,684 feet at Mount Mitchell, the highest point in the Eastern US. The climate of the coastal plains is strongly influenced by the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the state falls in the humid subtropical climate zone. More than 300 miles from the coast, the western, mountainous part of the state has a subtropical highland climate. North Carolina borders South Carolina on the south, Georgia on the southwest, Tennessee on the west, Virginia on the north, and the Atlantic Ocean on the east.
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