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Chuck Fiebernitz has served as the sports editor at the Mountaineer for the past seven years.
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Playoff time in North Carolina!
By Chuck Fiebernitz - Nov 01On Nov. 25, 2001 Jim Mora gave football fans one of the most infamous postgame press conference speeches of all time when his Indianapolis Colts ...
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Deal or No Deal?
By Chuck Fiebernitz - Jul 26We have just went past the halfway mark of the Major League season, and every ballclub is looking at their players trying to figure a way to ...
Unfortunately for Santo, it’s better late than never.
By Chuck Fiebernitz - Jul 12Major League Baseball’s annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony will take place on Sunday, July 22, in Cooperstown, New York.On July 21, the Hall ...
The real ‘Golden Age’ of Baseball
By Chuck Fiebernitz - Jun 28During the decade of the ’60s, our country appeared to be coming apart at the seems. We nearly turned a cold war into a nuclear war over missiles ...
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The lesson learned from the ‘Quintessential Cardinal’
By Chuck Fiebernitz - Jun 21A long time ago, a middle school “hot-headed” catcher learned one of his greatest lessons.This catcher had a tendency to argue with umpires a lot. ...
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The team behind the teams
By Chuck Fiebernitz - Jun 10A total of 14 people attended the meeting on June 5 to determine the interest in starting up the athletic booster club at Tuscola High. “I was ...
A funny baseball story and a few silly quotes
By Chuck Fiebernitz - May 31We all love baseball, but that love doesn’t mean we have to be blind to the funny and silly things that players can sometimes do or say. Baseball ...
So much for 'separate but equal'
By Chuck Fiebernitz - May 18At the turn of the 20th century, baseball was beset with declining attendance, rowdyism, greedy owners and very unhappy players.Despite all of its ...
'Merkle's Boner'
By Chuck Fiebernitz - May 03In late September of 1908, the Chicago Cubs and the New York Giants were locked in a very heated and intense battle for the National League ...
Moses Fleetwood Walker: The Forgotten Man Who Actually Integrated Baseball
By Chuck Fiebernitz - Apr 19Sunday (April 15) was the 65th anniversary of the day Brooklyn Dodgers’ Jackie Robinson forever shattered Major League Baseball’s color barrier ...
'It ain't over till it's over!'
By Chuck Fiebernitz - Aug 09I was watching Detroit and Cleveland on MLB Network on Sunday night. It was a great game but turned sour when the Indians scored three runs in the ...
Only 22 pitchers have been perfect in MLB history
By Chuck Fiebernitz - Jul 22The pitcher stands on the mound and battles the opposing batters for nine innings. Although the pitcher strives for perfection every time out, he ...
The stars will shine at the 83rd MLB All-Star game
By Chuck Fiebernitz - Jul 05An ambundance of the game’s stars will shine Tuesday night, July 10, at the 83rd Major League All-Star Game on Tuesday, July 10, at Kauffman ...
American Legion Post 47 baseball coming in 2013
By Chuck Fiebernitz - Jun 24I have never drank the “Kool-Aid” for this summer “recreational” baseball thing that Tuscola and Pisgah currently play once the high school ...
Clemente — Baseball's Last Hero
By Chuck Fiebernitz - Jun 14We have all seen on television or even in person a lot of talented major league baseball players. The greatest of the bunch always seem to just ...
Top baseball draft picks tend to be immortal flops
By Chuck Fiebernitz - Jun 07More than a dozen mock draft “experts” predicted the Houston Astros would take Stanford pitcher Mark Appel or Appling (GA) High School outfielder ...
The curious case of ‘Buck’ Weaver
By Chuck Fiebernitz - May 24George Daniel “Buck” Weaver was one of the great third basemen of his time and the only man Ty Cobb would not bunt against. In the 1919 World ...
Hamilton swings into MLB history
By Chuck Fiebernitz - May 10History is made almost every day in baseball. Sometimes it is bad, sometimes it’s good and sometimes it’s so rare that it’s the kind of history ...
Cobb! The greatest of all time
By Chuck Fiebernitz - Apr 26On so many hot summer nights as a young boy, I would sit in a rocking chair on the back porch with my grandpa listening to the radio broadcast of ...
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Baseball in the Great Depression
By Chuck Fiebernitz - Apr 14A very large crowd crossed over the Hudson River to watch the New York Knickerbockers play the New York Nine in a Hoboken, New Jersey waterfront ...
