Virginia Sports Hall of Fame and Museum
- Virginia Sports Hall of Fame and Museum
The Virginia Sports Hall of Fame and Museum is a sports hall of fame located in Portsmouth, Virginia. Founded in 1972, it moved to its current location in 2005. [Citation |last=Hoyer |first=Meghan |title=A day full of fanfare as Portsmouth opens sports museum |url=http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=85464&ran=13149 |publisher="Virginian-Pilot" |date=2005-04-23 |accessdate=2007-11-24] More than 200 athletes, coaches, administrators and others have been inducted into the hall.
The museum also features interactive exhibits which allow children to test their skills in basketball, football, baseball, soccer and more. There are nine exhibit areas featuring twenty sports.
Notable inductees
*George Allen
*Arthur Ashe
*Ed Beard
*Roosevelt Brown
*Roger Brown
*Al Bumbry
*Lou Creekmur
*Carroll Dale
*Leon Day
*Anne Donovan
*Bill Dudley
*Earl Faison
*William Fuller
*Chandler Harper
*Frank Havens
*Henry Jordan
*Willie Lanier
*Nancy Lieberman
*Moses Malone
*Benita Fitzgerald-Brown
*Clarence Parker
*Deacon Phillippe
*Eppa Rixey
*Ricky Rudd [Citation |last= |first= |title=Rudd among '07 inductees for Virginia Hall of Fame |url=http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=115507&ran=239829 |publisher="Virginian-Pilot" |date=2006-12-05 |accessdate=2007-11-24]
*Dallas Shirley
*Bruce Smith
*Sam Snead
*Dwight Stephenson
*Chuck Stobbs [Citation |last=Schudel |first=Matt |title=Chuck Stobbs; Senators Pitcher in 1950s |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/24/AR2008072403791.html |publisher="Washington Post" |date=2008-7-25 |accessdate=2008-7-25]
*Curtis Strange
*Lawrence Taylor
References
External links
* [http://vshfm.com/ Official website]
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