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Sid Bream was a baseball standout at Liberty University, but his coach there – former Major League pitcher Al Worthington – never saw him play in high school.
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Hall of Famer Billy Wagner shares a few things in common with Harrisonburg native and former Spotswood High School star Daryl Irvine – both starred in college at Ferrum, both pitched in The Show and each spent time with the Boston Red Sox.
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As a hitting coach in the minor leagues with the Pittsburgh Pirates farm system, Gregg Ritchie got to first work in 2005 with future All-Star outfielder Andrew McCutchen.
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Bryce Suters transferred back to the Shenandoah Valley to finish his college baseball career, and being familiar with coaches at Bridgewater College made the difference.
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CBS gives Bruce Pearl a platform to advocate for the school that still pays him to get an NCAA Tournament bid.
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On a recent weekday at 4:30 p.m. – exactly 150 minutes before the opening tip – veteran sports broadcaster Steve Buckhantz walked into the almost-empty Atlantic Union Bank Center on the campus of JMU in Harrisonburg.
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Aidan Miller said he was in eighth grade when he first heard from EMU coaches about possibly playing baseball at the Division III Harrisonburg school.
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Luke Keister clearly recalls the first time he went to see the Harrisonburg Turks play in the Valley Baseball League.
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Tyler Bocock sat on the wooden bleachers behind first base at Buck Bowman Park, the home of the Clover Hill Bucks of the Rockingham County Baseball League since the 1950s.
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After the 1971 Major League Baseball season, it appeared that the San Diego Padres would move to Washington.
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