Paintsville Little League

June 6, 1953

This is when Little league baseball kicked off its first season in Paintsville.
 Little League teams that year were "Buzzy's Bees", sponsored by County Clerk Buzzy Wheeler and coached by "Slick" Melvin; 
"Meade and Co." managed by Byrd Cox;
"Arrowood Goodyear" managed by Odus Parker;
and "H.B. Rice" managed by Sidney and Bill Garland.  
In the pony league the "Paintsville laundry team" was managed by Les Vanhoose;
the "J.B. Wells" team managed by Thoedore Miller and Cobb Clay;
"Hensley Tire Service" managed by H.I. Hensley;
and "Williams Grocery" managed by Vernon Lockwood.

Courtesy of Bob Marsh's "and that's a fact"