We ( Lawrence Nesselrodt and I) are entering our 19th season of West Virginia Tech University Baseball together, and doing so with our current President is nothing short of wonderful !

Both Allen Worrell and Chuck McGill managed to deal with me for a combined 10 years. The best estimate of how many of my stories these two edited would be 700 – 800. Both men were good at their job and a credit to the newspaper business !

McGill took over for Mike Petre at the Northern Virginia Daily in Strasburg, Virginia, and held that post until returning to West Virginia. His highlights there included working for the paper in Charleston and a great stint at Marshall University. We spent his final night working for the Thundering Herd at a home football game.

That weekend was another bizarre one as it went Laurel Fork to Obio for an App State Field Hockey game to James River for a JV District volleyball post-season tournament and then on to Huntington and finally back to Laurel Fork.

Allen Worrell not only edited 250 – 300 stories, he created another dozen or so over our four years together. We partnered on a number of projects that fit under our OneofUs.Care umbrella.

Each of the three Sportswriters / Editors listed above has been given the opportunity to submit a companion piece for the book, and they are the last three things left in question as we wrap things up. Regardless of whether or not they find the time to put pen to paper or not, they are all still Aces in my book !

It has been fun to rehash 50 years of writing and storytelling. It will be interesting to see the finished product !