Inside HOKIE SPORTS | Vol. 12 No. 2 | October 2019

44 Inside Hokie Sports H O W C A N I B R I N G M Y HOKIE, HOKIE, HOKIE, HI! CHANT A L L T H E W A Y I N T O ENEMY TERRITORY? Martin Travel I MartinTravel.com I 800-414-9275 I Human travel from real-live humans, courtesy of Martin Travel. ©2019 AAA Club Alliance Inc. 19_546839 FOOTBALL AWAY GAME PACKAGES Martin Travel has all of the official game packages! For more information, visit MartinTravel.com/Hokies TR_AD_19_546839_August Martin Travel Hokies Ad_pd02_01.indd 1 7/30/19 3:16 PM HARTMAN HONORED AGAIN FOR OUTSTANDING CAREER Friends of the Huckleberry positioned a bench with a plaque on it along the Huckleberry Trail just outside of English Field at Atlantic Union Bank Park to commemorate Chuck Hartman’s accomplishments as Tech’s baseball coach Former Virginia Tech head baseball coach Chuck Hartman received another in a long, long list of accolades when a local civic group placed a bench with a plaque on it along a popular walking, running and biking trail across the street from English Field at Atlantic Union Bank Park. The plaque serves as a commemoration of Hartman’s career and reads, “Placed by players and alumni to honor Coach Chuck Hartman, Head Coach at Virginia Tech for 28 years. His 1,444 career wins at retirement were the fourth most in NCAA Division 1 baseball history and he is in 5 Halls of Fame.” Friends of the Huckleberry, a group that works to place amenities along the popular Huckleberry Trail that runs from Blacksburg to Christiansburg, positioned the bench on the portion of the trail that runs parallel to Southgate Drive, one of the main arteries into campus. It sits next to the stadium where Hartman won a good portion of his 961 victories during a 28-year stint as the Hokies’ baseball coach. The group coordinated an informal ceremony to dedicate the bench toHartman’s career achievements on the Friday before the Tech-Rhode Island football game. Hartman, who turns 85 in December, attended the event along with former assistant coach J Phillips and several former Virginia Tech baseball players. Hartman won 1,444 games as a head coach – a 47-season career that included a 19-year tenure at High Point and 28 seasons at Tech. He became the all-time winningest baseball coach in Tech history in 1987, and his 961 wins at Tech are the most by any head coach in any sport in the university’s history. His Hall of Fame inductions include the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame (2004), the NAIA Hall of Fame (1989), the Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame (2002), the Gaston County (N.C) and Guilford County (N.C.) Hall of Fames (1979 and 2001), and the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame of which he was inducted in 2018. Hartman’s No. 1 baseball jersey was retired Sept. 22, 2006. He became the first and only member of the Tech baseball program ever to have his number retired. IHS extra