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What baseball pitcher played with the old Charleston Senators and went on to the United States Senate?
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What is the only national forest that lies entirely within the boundaries of West Virginia?
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Where was the final game of the Second National Negro League championship played?
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Who is generally considered WVU's greatest basketball player before World War II?
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This basketball coach at Davis & Elkins College and Marshall College is credited with pioneering the zone defense as well as the modern fast break.
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This Wheeling native was the first defensive player to win Most Valuable Player honors in a Super Bowl.
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In what year did Marshall University's football team suffer the deadliest plane crash in U.S. history?
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What Wheeling native hit the first walk-off home run to win a World Series (1960) ?
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In what year did Fairmont native Mary Lou Retton become the first American woman ever to win a gold medal in gymnastics?
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Who is the winningest coach in West Virginia University basketball history?
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