Tazewell’s Billy Wagner Voted Into Baseball Hall of Fame

He graduated from Ferrum College and went on to play 16 seasons in the Major Leagues.

Billy Wagner spent much of his youth hurling baseballs at the wall of an outbuilding at his aunt and uncle’s farm in Tazewell County.

His target as a 5-foot-5, 14-year-old was the simulated strike zone painted on cinder blocks.

The National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown?

That had to be merely a field of a young boy’s wildest dreams.

Read the full article from the Cardinal News HERE.