Virginia Door Softball

 

Team

 

Inducted 1985

 

In 1968, the Virginia Door Softball Team came upon the Tidewater softball scene and for the next six years dominated area softball like no team before or since.  The ‘Door,’ as everyone called them, played in four National tournaments (finishing seventh in 1973 at Cleveland, Ohio), six Regional tournaments, and won a total of fifty-one Major tournaments.  They are the only team to ever win the C.A.C. tournament five times.  In its six years of existence, the ‘Door’ went from great base-hitting and good defense, to power-hitting and great defense, while all along keeping its closeness as a team intact – another of its trademarks.

 

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Merv Troyer, Manager

Jimmy Walker 

Wayne Miller  

Wesley Walker

Donald Perry   

Bobby Lane     

Wilmer Jones

Speedy Rouse  

Morris Deal     

Paul Payne

Bobby Pritchard          

Red Johnson    

J. B. Eason

Ken Barefoot   

Phil Miller       

Gilbert Everton

John Hodges    

Richard Harmon          

Ed Fulford

Jim Ferris