Our next inductee was born and raised in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He went on to Villanova University, where he was a three-year starter on the football team. After graduation, he went on to coach football at Malvern Prep School in Philadelphia,…
Mac McEver, for half a century, was known as “Coach Mac” to the legions of Tech fans across Virginia. Even in his early 70’s Coach Mac was as active as he was nearly fifty years before when he joined the…
McCullough began his baseball career as an infielder with his hometown Nashville American Legion Team at the age of 17. He spent the next 40 years in the game. As an 18-year-old in 1935, McCullough was picked up as a…
From out of the North he came. That one index finger typing away at an unbelievable pace and producing crisp, passionate words. We honor George McClelland, the Bowdoin College-educated wordsmith from Teaneck, N.J. His lyrical prose and love of statistics…
Penelope Anderson McBride’s love affair with the game of tennis began at the age of eight. She started hitting a tennis ball against the back of the house in Richmond, Virginia, where she began to blossom into one of the…
A native of Norfolk, Virginia Eugene “Buck” Mayer was a 1916 graduate of the University of Virginia with a law degree. He played at Virginia during his undergraduate days as a halfback in football. Buck was recognized throughout the South…
Billy Martin, Sr. was a native of South Creek in Beaufort, North Carolina. Martin led Granby High School to 21 State Wrestling Championships. He compiled a dual match record of 259 wins and 9 losses, which included a 76 match-winning…
Lily Harper Martin was born in Portsmouth, Virginia on August 18, 1916. She spent her entire life in the city and became an outstanding golfer. She won the Virginia State's Women's Golf Championships a total of seven times, all within…
Born in Richmond, Virginia in 1921, Marshall began his athletic career playing baseball for Manchester High School and with the American Legion Team. He attended Wake Forest University for just one year before turning to professional baseball. Marshall broke into…
As a player and a coach, Laura Mapp pushed to place women’s sports as a non-stop force on the Virginia map. Her excellence in coaching and teaching marks her as one of the most successful and dedicated women in Virginia…