The South Wheeling Woman Who Became A Baseball Legend Kate Wietor April 4, 2022 Rose Gacioch, a groundbreaking athlete from South Wheeling is well known for her time in the All American Girls Baseball League as a member of the Rockford Peaches. Yes, the same team featured in the 1992 film,...
How an Ohio Valley Resident Became Black Baseball’s First Historian Emma Wiley April 23, 2021 Baseball is back in full swing for the season, and many of us are ready to take to the field or root for our favorite team as fans. While “America’s favorite pastime” has fostered interesting stories across the...
Wheeling’s Women Are Slam Dunks Stacey Miller Sacco May 4, 2020 Wheeling loves sports. This is evident by the high participation in every Ohio Valley Athletic Conference event. You know it when you see the hundreds of people who come to Wheeling for Super Six weekend or Bea...
CCHS Poised For W.Va. Class A Baseball Championship Steve Novotney June 1, 2017 Student athletes at Wheeling Central Catholic High School have collected a lot of hardware this spring, and now the Maroon Knights are set to begin their quest for their first state baseball championship since ...
Baseball in Wheeling – Chapter 3 Steve Novotney May 13, 2017 (Editor’s Note: This chapter is the fourth entry of a series of stories that will focus on the history of the game of baseball in the Wheeling area.) “It’s Because He Smiled A Lot” It really didn’t m...
Baseball in Wheeling – Chapter 2 Steve Novotney April 15, 2017 2 (Editor’s Note: This introduction is the third entry of a series of stories that will focus on the history of the game of baseball in the Wheeling area.) “Belle Isle was Yankee Stadium” There we...
Baseball in Wheeling – Chapter 1 Steve Novotney March 31, 2017 5 Editor’s Note: This is the first chapter of a series of stories that will focus on the history of the game of baseball in the Wheeling area. A Man and His Game The pitcher’s mound moved depending on the ...
Baseball in Wheeling: An Introduction Steve Novotney March 18, 2017 6 (Editor’s Note: This introduction is the first entry of a series of stories that will focus on the history of the game of baseball in the Wheeling area.) See the kid in the white, wool uniform, in the middle...
McConnaughy Returns to CCHS Baseball Program Steve Novotney July 26, 2016 1 Administrators at Central Catholic High School have appointed Bo McConnaughy as head baseball coach of the Maroon Knights for the upcoming school year. Coach Bo McConnaughy (Class of ’66) returns to his Alma...
In The Bigs: An Oath, the Stats, and Baseball Steve Novotney July 2, 2016 “In The Bigs”? It was the column I composed while serving as editor and GM of “The Official Newspaper of the Pittsburgh Pirates,” and it appeared every two weeks on the third-to-last-page of the “PIRATE REPO...
A Cure for a Crazy World LeeRoy June 13, 2016 We woke up to peace on this beautiful Sunday morning in Wheeling, W.Va. Our four month old was cooing at her entangled hands, and the seventeen year cicadas were sound-checking their twenty first day symphony. ...
