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CityViewNC.com | 31 Visit www.gatesfour.com to find a full list of club amenities 6775 Irongate Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28306 (Less than 10 min. from Raeford Road) CALL 910-425-6667 FOR MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION CALL 910-425-6667 FOR MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION NON-RESIDENTS WELCOME! Gates Four A private club experience, with limited tee times available Come Discover What's Behind The Gates Don't Stress. Let Merry Maids of Fayetteville Take Care of the Mess. We offer odorless environmentally friendly cleaning solutions to clean your home with our advanced techniques to deliver exceptional results. Mention code CV2021 10% off any 1 service or 15% off of 2 or more services with S&A Family. Call Merry Maids at (910) 423-7722 www.merrymaids.com/Fayetteville The Surgeon & Associates Family of Businesses www.surgeonandassociates.com Family Values • Superior Service • Career Opportunities A ll the Sarasota hotels were booked for one reason or another, but former "Baseball America" co-editor John Manuel, now a scout for major league baseball's Minnesota Twins, got lucky. He was able to find one of those "tiny houses," one that was 300 square feet of well-appointed convenience, allowing him to concentrate his Florida mornings and aernoons on scouring the minor leagues for the next Rod Carew or Kirby Puckett. During his boyhood growing up in Fayetteville, he might have been more intent on finding the next Stan Musial. "In my family, baseball starts with my dad," Manuel said. His father, Chrysostom Manuel, came to the United States from Greece in 1946, disembarking in New York where he ended up catching a game at the Polo Grounds. e St. Louis Cardinals were playing the New York Giants, and the elder Manuel would go on to become a lifetime fan of the Cards and their star and eventual Hall of Famer, Stan "e Man" Musial. "You can't get any more quintessential than Stan Musial," John Manuel said. "Baseball was always on TV when I was growing up. My dad has always been a pretty knowledgeable fan." Chrysostom Manuel became the first full- time priest at Fayetteville's Saints Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church, retiring in 2000. Amphitrite and Chrysostom Manuel still live in Fayetteville, where they raised their four children. Fayetteville is where John, their affable youngest, got his unofficial start as a sportswriter. "I played church league basketball," he said. "And I would write a game story aer the game and pass it out to my teammates. I mean, we didn't have blogs back then." He graduated from high school during a stint the family lived in Asheville, then followed in his siblings' footsteps, heading to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He majored in history with the intention of becoming a United Nations diplomat. It's been a lifelong love of the game for this Fayetteville native BY KIM HAST Y

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