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West Virginia's championship teams at WVU and Marshall and athletic superstars like Jerry West and Mary Lou Retton are familiar to all, but few know the untold story of sports in the Mountain State. Hillside Fields: A History of Sports in West Virginia chronicles the famous athletic triumphs and heart-breaking losses of local heroes and legendary teams, recording the titanic struggles of a small state competing alongside larger rivals.
Hillside Fields provides a broad view of the development of sports in West Virginia, from one of the first golf clubs in America at Oakhurst Links to the Greenbrier Classic; from the first girls basketball championship in 1919 to post Title IX; from racially segregated sports to integrated teams; and from the days when West Virginia Wesleyan and Davis & Elkins beat the big boys in football to the championship teams at WVU, Marshall, West Virginia State and West Liberty.
Hillside Fields explains how major national trends and events, as well as West Virginia's economic, political, and demographic conditions, influenced the development of sports in the state. The story of the growth of sports in West Virginia is also a story of the tribulations, hopes, values and triumphs of a proud people.
Hillside Fields provides a broad view of the development of sports in West Virginia, from one of the first golf clubs in America at Oakhurst Links to the Greenbrier Classic; from the first girls basketball championship in 1919 to post Title IX; from racially segregated sports to integrated teams; and from the days when West Virginia Wesleyan and Davis & Elkins beat the big boys in football to the championship teams at WVU, Marshall, West Virginia State and West Liberty.
Hillside Fields explains how major national trends and events, as well as West Virginia's economic, political, and demographic conditions, influenced the development of sports in the state. The story of the growth of sports in West Virginia is also a story of the tribulations, hopes, values and triumphs of a proud people.
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North American HistoryTable of contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Baseball Comes to West Virginia: A History of Minor League Baseball in the Mountain State
- Oakhurst Links: From the First Golf Club in America to the Greenbrier Classic
- The Beginning of Football in West Virginia: The First Three Decades, 1891–1919
- Davis & Elkins Beats Navy: The Rise of College Football in the 1920s
- West Virginia’s “Separate but Equal Basketball Tournament”
- West Virginia University and Marshall College: National College Basketball Champions
- West Virginia State College: National Champions
- The 1950s: The Golden Age of West Virginia University Athletics
- No Field of Dreams—Not Even a Field: West Liberty’s Golden Baseball Season
- West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Basketball: 1935–2013
- The Girls’ Turn To Play: From the First State Basketball Tournament in 1919 Through Title IX and Beyond
- Ashes to Glory: Marshall Football from 1960 to We Are Marshall
- A Major Leads His Army: West Virginia University Football, 1960 through the Don Nehlen Years
- A History of High School Sports in West Virginia
- Epilogue: Sports in West Virginia, 2011
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author