No. 1: Our kings of the hill
Posted: December 27, 2009 at 2:50 a.m.
Arkansas-bred pitchers Cliff Lee and A.J. Burnett faced each other for the first time, at any level, in Game 5 of the 2009 World Series.The national media were slow to catch on to the novelty of the story. But members of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette sports staff recognized the event’s magnitude from the start, playing the story prominently when it happened and voting the event as the No. 1 sports story of the year in the state.
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Sports, Pages 32 on 12/27/2009
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