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Sports in the Carolinas Novello Festival Press A sports fan may die and go to heaven, but he or she might prefer going to the Carolinas. Athletes and teams from the region have won Heisman trophies, Olympic medals, championship belts in pro boxing and pro wrestling, and national titles in just about every sport people play. The region is home to famous institutions and personalities both renowned and obscure: stock-car driver Richard Petty, who won 200 NASCAR races; Shoeless Joe Jackson, who may or may not have thrown the 1919 "Black Sox" World Series but definitely inspired the movie Field of Dreams; Clemson University, whose campus becomes the third-largest city in South Carolina every time its team plays a home football game; the Atlantic Coast Conference's "Big Four" of college basketball, with nine national titles among them; and Ernie Shore, a Boston Red Sox pitcher who took over a game after his teammate—a Baltimore kid named George Herman Ruth—was ejected for arguing the first pitch, and proceeded to throw a perfect game for which he was never credited. And as for a basketball player named Michael . . . Sports in the Carolinas boasts dozens of essays, profiles, and personal reminiscences that celebrate these and other amazing stories.
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