Buddy Dear
Paul Stanford "Buddy" Dear was a Major League Baseball player who played in two games for the Washington Senators in. He was used as a pinch runner and second baseman. He was a star two-sport athlete at Virginia Tech in the mid-1920s. During his junior year in 1926 he came close to hitting.400 before breaking his leg in a late season game. As a senior, he led the Hokie baseball team to a perfect 8-0 record against other Virginia collegiate teams and an overall mark of 11-4. He was in the third class elected to the Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame in 1984. He was a native of Norfolk, VA.
