J.C. Snead at the 1983 Players Championship. Snead died Friday at home. (Fred Vance/PGA Tour archives
HOT SPRINGS — Throughout his lifetime, Paul Siple called the star he coached at Valley High School in the 1950s the greatest all-around athlete to ever come out of Bath County.
Those who grew up with him and were his teammates were sure he was destined for a Major League Baseball career soon after signing with the Washington Senators in 1961. But wait a minute.
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