SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Roscoe the Rooster won't be strutting his stuff in Princeton.The Birdfeeder concession stand in Bluefield won't be dispensing nachos, corn dogs or hot dogs slathered in mustard and relish.Monongalia County Ballpark in Morgantown will be quiet and without any Black Bear ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Young children would scramble out of bed and grab a fresh roll or peeled peach on the way out through the flimsy green screen door.Budding teens would have an apple in their hands, a five-fingered infielder's glove and a wide smile as they tore off the porch.Those in their ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- There isn't a ski slope in downtown Bakerton. Maybe there should be. Jefferson High School and Shepherd University graduate David Bradshaw was back in the state earlier this week to participate in the 87th West Virginia Open golf tournament, an event he had won 11 times, ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- On Saturday at Belmont Park, there will be no surge of fans leaving public transit cars to hustle their way toward this year's first leg of thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown series. No hype or promotion noting the Belmont as being the "Test of a Champion" or the track being ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Baseball is coming back. Designated hitters, pitching specialists and the eerie shadows occupying corners of the stands where ticket holders used to be seated.There will be no people in the stands, only social-distancing players attempting to ply their trade with no sunflower ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- The stately Belmont Stakes, to be contested on June 20, has recently told the racing world it won't be rocking its luxury liner of a race this year.After the other two legs of the imperial Triple Crown series -- the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes -- made changes to their ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Throw out the baby with the bath water.The professional baseball seasons will be much different than ever before. That is if there are professional baseball seasons this summer.Pandemic and COVID-19 have been harder to fathom than a Sandy Koufax fastball or stopping Joe ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Well-organized. Historically relevant. Loyalty up and down the I-81 corridor. A significant summer baseball league that was begun in 1897.But not in 2020.No collegiate baseball this summer in the Valley Baseball League of Virginia, an NCAA-sanctioned and Major League ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Robins bob along, after their worms and mostly undisturbed by people chasing spring.Infields are not manicured, or outfields mowed or bleachers filled with banter, laughter and young people having fun in the warming temperatures.Familiar sounds of baseballs thumping into ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Professional baseball is skating along, worried about any playing dates as the coronavirus controls sports, and still posing the question of what will happen to the 42 minor league franchises now scheduled to be shuttered following the 2020 season.Will the Major League season ...
