🌱 How a Masontown shortstop reached the Hall despite heartbreaking injuries
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- How a Masontown shortstop reached the Hall despite heartbreaking injuries
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- Friday: Showers and a heavier t-storm, with a high of 84 and low of 60 degrees.
- Saturday: Mostly sunny and less humid, temps: high: 83, low: 61.
- Sunday: Turning cloudy with a t-storm, with a high of 78 and low of 56 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Into the Hall: John Kolar (heraldstandard.com) — Masontown native and 1954 Masontown High graduate John Kolar is being posthumously inducted into the Fayette County Sports Hall of Fame on June 19, honoring a baseball career that began in local leagues. The story traces his journey from Masontown fields to minor league stints with the Pirates and Orioles, and how injuries redirected him toward family, work, and lifelong community sports. 
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