The MLB draft will be televised Saturday full of hype, information and a fanfare two local players drafted 41 years ago were unfamiliar with when their names were called. The two local players drafted that year were: Doug Dascenzo of Brownsville Area High School and Oklahoma State by the ...

Doug Dascenzo was like most youth baseball players when he was growing up in Fayette County. “Just like all the other kids in the area, you watch games on TV, you always dream you want to play on TV,” Dascenzo said. “But it's hard, a very difficult thing to accomplish.” Dascenzo ...

Doug Dascenzo, who spent seven seasons in the major leagues, and James Hairston, Fayette County’s all-time leading scorer in basketball, headline the Fayette County Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2025. Brownsville graduate Dascenzo, the top vote-getter, and Connellsville graduate Hairston ...