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Billy Sample was numb Wednesday. Former James Madison University baseball coach and executive associate athletic director Brad Babcock, who was Sample’s college coach, died Tuesday at the age of 81.
Via TheAthletic.com, Angels outfielder Mike Trout’s inscription of the Super Bowl LIX final score on the bottom of his bat ...
Of our ever-growing list of current and former MLB players to hold live chats here, Billy Sample is the first to have played in the 1970s. The Texas Rangers came to be in 1972, and the following ...
Sample takes readers back to his humble upbringing in Salem, Va. to his glory days at Andrew Lewis High School where the 5-foot 9-inch powerhouse was an outstanding multi-sport athlete in baseball ...
The field at Kiwanis Park is now known as Billy ... same field Sample played on back in the day. Sample was a decorated athlete in his time at Andrew Lewis High School, playing baseball, football ...
Some players -- like the now-immortal Keith Comstock-- pose for them on purpose. Some are semi-tragic mistakes. Others, well, we just don't know. What we do know: From bat-handle obscenities to ...
It was 35 years ago that Fleer released the legendary Billy Ripken baseball card that featured ‘f*** face’ written on the knob of his bat while he was with the Baltimore Orioles. This week ...
Former Major League Baseball outfielder and Andrew Lewis High School graduate Billy Sample will be the guest speaker when the Salem-Roanoke Baseball Hall of Fame has its 21st annual banquet ...