sports in Appalachia Archives - Appalachian History

Anybody could play chunkey: boys, girls, old men, old women, anybody

To win this game, you just had to hit that chunkey stone dead center with your stick as it was rolling. It would flop over, and you had won.

Lewis ‘Hack’ Wilson had already led the National League in homers four out of the previous five years at the beginning of the 1930 season.

Rookie sportswriter Bill McGeehan of the New York Herald-Tribune dubbed him that because, to him, Jones looked downcast on the field.

On June 29th of 1899, the boxing match that led to a ban of prize fighting in West Virginia got underway at Fries Park in Parkersburg, WV.

Future champion college basketball coach Sonny Smith was born November 15, 1936 in Roan Mountain, TN, the son of a mill worker.

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