[PHSFAN]

Sorry about the black text before ... after some thought, Ken Trivette, surprisingly enough, was a pretty good baseball player for PHS back in the day. He was a pretty good everything back then. You won't find catchers any tougher than Jerry Ray. All the McNamees were good baseball players -- Joe (who didn't go to Pikeville, but went to HS in West Virginia) actually was a stud for WVU in college.

It's hard to judge the older players against the new era. I would assume the last 15 years or so have seen the majority of the better baseball players to come out of PHS, particularly since it has only been since the mid-80s that baseball was made a priority, even thought they reeled off a ton of District titles in a row from the late 70s on.

I'm pretty sure if you want a concise list of the best ever at PHS, you can just call Gene Davis. He coached or watched just about everone who played there.

Next time I talk to him, I'll ask him and post his list.

The MacNamees were great players. Dan, the youngest, would have been the best player ever to play at Pikeville if he had gone to Pikeville in high school.