FERRUM, Va. --- Former Ferrum College and Major League Baseball standout Billy Wagner has been selected for induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The seven-time MLB All-Star had a record-setting baseball career at Ferrum from 1991-93 before being drafted…
(WDBJ) - Ferrum College baseball player turned professional, Billy Wagner, has been inducted into the Major League Baseball of Fame. The announcement was made on Tuesday evening on MLB Network. After a stellar 16-year major league career where Wagner holds…
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y (CBS19 SPORTS)-- It was announced Tuesday night on MLB Network that Miller School baseball coach, Billy Wagner, has been selected in this years class to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Wagner was short by just five votes…
FERRUM, Va. (WFXR) — Great news for Tazewell native and former Ferrum College pitcher Billy Wagner as he cracks the National Baseball Hall of Fame in his 10th and final year on the ballot.Last year, Wagner was 5 votes away…
Billy Wagner came through in his final inning. In his 10th and last bid on the ballot, the former Mets closer earned what might as well have been his 423rd save, clearing the 75 percent threshold to join Ichiro Suzuki…
HOUSTON -- Billy Wagner, a flame-throwing left-hander who was one of the elite strikeout artists of his generation, will take his place among the game’s greatest players of all time after being elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in…
COOPERSTOWN, NY – In his tenth and final year on the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, Ferrum’s Billy Wagner has been named to the 2025 class. “I don’t even know how to express it from Southwest Virginia,” Wagner said. “I mean,…
NORFOLK, Va. – It was the spring of 1975, and a talented, close-knit group of young men of different races and backgrounds traveled to the nation’s heartland and won the first national championship ever for Old Dominion University. Most ODU fans…
Aren’t all relief pitchers just failed starters? In Billy Wagner’s case, the answer is a definite no. The power-packed left-hander never started a game in his major league career (though he did almost exclusively in the minors). Perhaps Wagner could…
The primary objective of pitching is to suppress hitting. Over the past 105 years, Billy Wagner is one of the best pitchers at the most elemental definition of the craft—while pitching mostly with the game on the line. Folks, that…