The first ever Virginia Sports Hall of Fame inductee honored for officiating, Shirley presided over 2,000 basketball games across a span of 33 years before retiring. At the time Shirley stated “I can still toot the whistle and jump up…
Alphonso Smith won the Boys National Singles and Doubles Tennis Titles in 1924, accomplishing the feat without losing a single set. In 1982, Smith and partner Eddie Jacobs won the 45-and-over National Senior Doubles Championship, repeating their 1927 National Junior…
Richard A. “Captain Dick” Smith was a legend at Washington & Lee University where he served as Athletic Director from 1921 to his retirement in 1954. Smith coached baseball at W&L for 30 years from 1922-52, during which time his…
Frank Summers, a native of Alexandria, graduated from Virginia Military Institute in 1922 as second ranking officer in the Cadet Corps. He was the first man in Virginia Military Institute history to win letters in football, baseball, basketball, and track…
By the time most kids outgrow full-time running and jumping, Benita Fitzgerald Mosley was setting records doing just that. In 1979, while competing in Atlanta, Georgia Mosley set the USA National High School Record in the hundred and dash with…
George S. “Gummy” Proctor was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, on September 30, 1907. At the early age of 15, he officiated his first big basketball game – Wake Forest College against the Richmond Blues, for only a $5.00 fee. Proctor…
Ripley was born on October 16, 1956 in Washington D.C. and grew up in Springfield, Virginia. She has been called one of America’s greatest swimmers. Ripley first appeared on the national swimming scene at the age of 12 when she…
Shelley Mann was known as one of the glamour girls of sports in the United States in the 1950’s. Although born in Long Island, New York and a graduate of Cornell University, Mann’s parents were native Virginians and she returned…
McQuinn, from Ballston, Virginia, spent his entire life in baseball. His professional career started in 1930 with New Haven, Connecticut in the old Eastern League. In addition to the Eastern League, McQuinn played in the Mid-Atlantic, New York - Penn,…
