Miller School of Albemarle Student Photographer, Edward Harrison. Courtesy MSA. Billy Wagner, the baseball coach at Miller ...

Miller School baseball coach Billy Wagner, known to the outside world as the best lefthanded closer in MLB history, is a Baseball Hall of Famer.

"You have to love this game to play it because it's like life--nobody cares about your feelings, what you did yesterday so ...

The distance from Ferrum, Virginia to Cooperstown, New York is a road far longer than just the miles between the two small ...

Billy Wagner can make a double dose of history Tuesday ... The Tazewell High School graduate would become the first native of Southwest Virginia to make it to Cooperstown.

BLACKSBURG – Bound for Cooperstown, Billy Wagner – 16-year MLB veteran ... Receiving the sport’s highest honor, Wagner will serve as the Virginia Tech baseball team’s featured guest and keynote ...

Billy Wagner’s path to the Baseball Hall of Fame was far from simple. The post “To Have Your Career Scrutinized for Ten Years”- Teary-Eyed Billy Wagner Looks Back at His Humbling Struggles appeared ...

FERRUM, Va. — Billy Wagner’s life is a bit different since he was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame last week.

Billy Wagner came through in his final inning ... Steve and Alex Cohen congratulated Wagner, a native of small-town Virginia who acknowledged Queens was an adjustment but one that he is happy ...

Wagner had a 1.98 earned run average and struck out 22 of the 56 batters he faced in his 15 games for the Red sox in 2009.

In Billy Wagner’s case, the answer is a definite no. The ... The No. 12 overall pick by the Houston Astros in 1993 out of Ferrum College in Virginia, Wagner threw exceptionally hard, especially for ...

HOUSTON -- Entering a close game in the ninth inning and needing three outs to get a save is a situation closer Billy ... voting. Wagner said reaching the Hall of Fame would have impacts beyond his ...