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Finch Field is a baseball venue in Thomasville, North Carolina, USA. It is home to the Thomasville Hi-Toms of the Coastal Plain League, a collegiate... summer baseball league. The park was built in 1935 and has been renovated in 2002, 2005, and 2007. The park's dimensions are 325 ft. down the left field line, 350 ft. to left center, 390 ft. to dead center field, 365 ft. to right center, and 330 ft. down the right field line. The park currently hosts the Coastal Plain League's Thomasville Hi-Toms. The Hi-Toms began playing at Finch Field in 1999, the same year as their inception in the league. During their time at Finch, the team has won three Coastal Plain League championships. The park has hosted numerous other professional teams since its construction in 1935. Below is a table with team names and the seasons in which they played at Finch Field. In addition to professional and collegiate summer baseball, the park is home to numerous amateur baseball teams. Area American Legion baseball teams and the Thomasville High School teams both utilize the field. In 1982, the park's original grandstand was burned down by arson. A metal seating structure was erected soon after.
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The Mitchell House Museum was founded in 1982 as a project of the Mills Home Alumni Association. The museum is located in Thomasville, NC on the... Mills Home Campus, the original campus of the Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina. It occupies the oldest building on the Mills Home Campus. The Mitchell House, named for Rev. John Mitchell, was the first cottage on the Mills Home Campus, completed in 1885 to house girls at the orphanage. Exhibits at the Mitchell Museum are drawn from a number of sources, including antique equipment, furniture, and memorabilia formerly used in other Mills Home cottages and workshops, as well as additional alumni contributions. Smaller rooms on either side of the two large central rooms were originally bedrooms for the orphans and matrons, the children's rooms sleeping 8-10 young girls in each. One of these rooms is furnished as it might have been in the 1930s. One contains antique medical and dental equipment rescued from the old infirmary. One room is devoted to the Museum's collection of photographs, scrapbooks, and yearbooks. The Mitchell House Museum is open by appointment throughout most of the year.
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Brian Lee Vickers is a American NASCAR and sportscar driver. He was the 2003 Busch Series champion, and at age 20, became the youngest champion in... any of NASCAR's three top-tier series. Vickers will drive the No. 55 Toyota in eight races for Michael Waltrip Racing and selected races for AF Waltrip in the #61 Ferrari at the World Endurance Championship in 2012. Vickers began running go karts in 1994. Over the next three years, he won eighty races in the World Karting Association, and won three championships, including the 1995 championship against three-time winner Mike Schwartz. In 1998, he moved to the Allison Legacy Series, and won five races during the course of the season. After competing in the NASCAR Dodge Weekly Racing Series in 1999, he moved to USAR ProCup; winning Rookie of the Year. He won two races in 2000. In 2001, he won five more races and finished 2nd in points. Vickers made his Busch Series debut in the 2001 GNC Live Well 250 at Miwaukee in the #29 car; owned by his father Clyde. He qualified 30th and finished 37th after a crash.
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Brian Lee Vickers is a American NASCAR and sportscar driver. He was the 2003 Busch Series champion, and at age 20, became the youngest champion in... any of NASCAR's three top-tier series. Vickers will drive the No. 55 Toyota in eight races for Michael Waltrip Racing and selected races for AF Waltrip in the #61 Ferrari at the World Endurance Championship in 2012. Vickers began running go karts in 1994. Over the next three years, he won eighty races in the World Karting Association, and won three championships, including the 1995 championship against three-time winner Mike Schwartz. In 1998, he moved to the Allison Legacy Series, and won five races during the course of the season. After competing in the NASCAR Dodge Weekly Racing Series in 1999, he moved to USAR ProCup; winning Rookie of the Year. He won two races in 2000. In 2001, he won five more races and finished 2nd in points. Vickers made his Busch Series debut in the 2001 GNC Live Well 250 at Miwaukee in the #29 car; owned by his father Clyde. He qualified 30th and finished 37th after a crash.
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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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