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This is a portal for sports in the area and should be used to encourage a wider array of articles on the topic.
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Article ideas
- Identify area athletic facilities
- Identify area sports leagues
- Public High School Sports
- VHSL state championships in the area
- VHSL state records in the area
- Albemarle County Public Schools Athletic Council
- Private High School Sports
- VISAA state championships in the area
- VISAA state records in the area
- UVA Athletics
History
Baseball history
- In 1890, a professional team from Boston visited Charlottesville. The following year, they did their spring training in the area and won the pennant that year. They did their spring warm-ups in Charlottesville for both 1892 and 1893, winning the pennant again in the latter. In 1894, however, a professional team from Baltimore did their pre-season practices here and they won the league that year. [1]
- The Washington National uses Charlottesville for their spring training in 1913 [2]
UVA / Virginia Tech rivalry
The University of Virginia and Virginia Polytechnic Institute have had a long rivalry, but such a run of contested sporting events was not evident. In 1910, the Boards of Visitors for both schools decided to not hold a football game that year and to avoid recurring matches.
"We believe that a feeling of intense partisanship and rivalry would be engendered which would be detrimental, not only to the ideas of sportsmanship, but also to the increasing co-operative and friendly relations between the two schools," read a statement released on January 11 of that year. [3]
Teams
The top-level category for the sports portal is Sports.
- Important subcategories include
External Links
- ↑ Web. Charlottesville a Sure Harbinger of Victory for Baseballists, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, January 14, 1895, retrieved January 14, 2023. Print. January 14, 1895 page 1.
- ↑ Web. Nationals Coming, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, January 14, 1913, retrieved January 14, 2023.
- ↑ Web. Decision is Against Game, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, January 14, 1910, retrieved January 14, 2023. Print. January 14, 1910 page 1.