Tom Vitale has the distinction of being the first baseball player from Belle Vernon Area High School to be selected in the Major League Baseball Draft back in 1975. Vitale, a left-handed hurler, got an early start in athletics. “Growing up in Western Pennsylvania athletics was about all ...
The county league is playing its championship series. The Pittsburgh Steelers arrived in Latrobe for training camp. American Legion baseball starts the state tournament Saturday, and the annual county golf championship is on the near horizon. That all adds up to one thing – the time for ...
Bob Oldham is another outstanding baseball player out of Connellsville. Oldham was a product of the outstanding Connellsville youth baseball system that nurtured some fine talented players through the years. “I played Llittle league all the way through teener league in Connellsville,” ...
Fayette County has always had a rich baseball history. Forgotten over the years is a great ballplayer from a bygone era, Jasper “Jap” Washington, who was born September 13, 1896 and was a native of Dunbar. Washington was a graduate of Connellsville High School and shortly after ...
Shrouded by the mists of time former Uniontown High School and University of Pittsburgh basketball standout Lester Cohen is slated to be inducted posthumously into the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Western Pennsylvania on May 5. The Cohen family is thrilled with the honor. “We were very ...
Connellsville has always had a rich baseball heritage. Former Geibel Catholic High School two-sport standout Keith Smith is just one of the many players produced by the city along the Youghiogheny River. Smith, like many athletes, got his start in sports at an early age. “I got a start in ...
