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Article: MEMORIAL, SCHOLARSHIPS ARE LEGACY OF YOUNG BALLPLAYERS.(SUFFOLK SUN)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- April 5, 2001
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Byline: PHYLLIS SPEIDELL, STAFF WRITER
TEARS and raindrops fell when Debra and Louis Bagley and Sherry Bodie met at the Bennett's Creek Little League complex in Driver for their first look at a monument honoring their sons.
David Bagley, 22, who had played in the Challenger division and was slated to be an assistant coach there, died unexpectedly in 1999. Bodie's son, Shane Stewart, 5, a T-ball Oriole, lost his life when a car struck him in 2000.
In the past six months, coaches, league families and local businesses worked together to establish a memorial to the two boys. Last week, the Bagleys and Bodie stood in the rain, watching as the black ...